English

Alternative forms

• hollowhearted

Adjective

hollow-hearted ‎(comparative more hollow-hearted, superlative most hollow-hearted)

1. insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
   • 2013, Anna Katherine Green, The Mayor's Wife, ISBN 1470953870:

     Had I, through the weakness and doting fondness of this poor woman, come upon the one link which would yet lead us to identify this hollow-hearted, false and most vindictive man of great affairs with the wandering and worthless husband of the nodescript Bess, whose hand I had touched and whose errand I had done, little realizing its purport or the influence it would have upon our lives?

2. Yearning.
   • 2011, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, ISBN 1618030264:

     Their fingers tightened with a sweet fury, and they sat still and breathless and crazy with love, their eyes drowsy with tenderness, hollow-hearted with wanting each other, and wanting to put their mouths together.

3. Having a hole at the center.
   • 2015, Donna Rivas, Bamboo 222 Success Secrets - 222 Most Asked Questions On Bamboo, ISBN 1488829950:

     Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias.