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UK
/hˈɒləʊnəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- the state of being hollow: having an empty space within
- the property of having a sunken area
How To Use hollowness In A Sentence
- Maybe others in the pueblo feel the same sense of frustration, a strange kind of hollowness and loss. Beautifully Arranged
- I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof. Highways and Byways in Surrey
- Stylist suggests the house is done a few more complexly when decorate, the perception that avoids hollowness appears.
- The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
- His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.
- But ecclesiastical power without moral authority merely exposes the hollowness of an unaccountable, self-perpetuating clerisy. Times, Sunday Times
- The hollowness of his contrition was particular acute when he stumbled over the carefully prepared words where he was to tell the media that he had learnt an important lesson about his responsibility as a role model for kids.
- The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. The 20 Best Progressive Novels
- The 5.1 track still retains some of the lo-fi hollowness of the original mono, but is overall an excellent mix.
- Its hollowness depicts in the theme itself. the trend mostly confines to physical attributes of women particularly virgins and a phantom of their beauty that, unfortunately, should not be the only approach of literature.