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hollow

n. a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"

hollow

n. a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

hole

n. a depression hollowed out of solid matter

hollow out, make hollow, core out

v. remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

dig, excavate

v. remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

hollow

adj. not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"

false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"

empty, vacuous

adj. devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"

recess, niche

n. an enclosure that is set back or indented

tunnel, burrow

v. move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest"

undercut

v. cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall

gouge, force out, force with the thumb

v. force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"

blank

adj. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

meaningless

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

superficial, trivial

adj. of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish

adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous

adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative

adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"

gilded, spurious, meretricious, specious

adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

insignificant

adj. signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall

mindless, unmeaning

adj. signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall

nonsense, nonsensical

adj. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

pointless, purposeless

adj. lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

solid

adj. entirely of one substance with no holes inside; "a solid block of wood"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

genuine

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

frank, genuine

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"

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