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- adjective
superlative form ofhollow : mosthollow .
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Examples
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And the Marxist hooligans are still lecturing us, hectoring us, talking down to us, as if we are the bad guys, and as if the hell on earth they promote were not the hollowest of lies.
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Suddenly the stuff on the pitch, with England needing six wickets to seal the hollowest of victories all seems largely irrelevant.
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Surfers could drop in on giant barrels with a light, fast shortboard that fit in the hollowest part of the wave, and still have stability and still turn like a bat.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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It mattered little that Sinclair's opponent, Governor Frank Merriam, was an "ox," as Westbrook Pegler put it or, in the words of Mencken, "a hack politician of the hollowest sort."
Greg Mitchell: When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics 2009
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Not only do they depend on the hollowest, most superficial sort of resemblance, but they are easy to refute.
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Not only do they depend on the hollowest, most superficial sort of resemblance, but they are easy to refute.
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The hollowest scene is the one I am sure was intended to be the film's most redemptive.
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The scene opens with Bale uttering the hollowest and flat holiday greeting ever: Hey Hamilton, have a holly jolly Christmas.
Eric’s Top 10 Defining Christmas Moments » Scene-Stealers 2007
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Perhaps no vilifier of Hillary Clinton traipses across the footlights with a bigger satchel of calumnies than Andrew Sullivan, who diagnosed Mrs. Clinton as “the hollowest form of political life,” a “sociopath.”
When Democrats Go Post-al Wolcott, James 2008
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And I arraign the “Reconstruction policy” as one of the hollowest pieces of perfidy ever perpetrated upon an innocent, helpless people; and in the treatment of the issues growing out of that policy, I arraign the dominant party of the time for base ingratitude, subterfuge and hypocrisy to its black partisan allies.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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