hollowly
In vacant tones
Hollowly describes something done in a hollow manner—empty, insincere, or lacking substance.
A laugh that rings hollowly sounds forced or joyless.
Words spoken hollowly carry no conviction: She hollowly promised to try harder.
The adverb can also describe sounds that echo as if in an empty space: His footsteps rang hollowly in the abandoned warehouse.
Falsely displayed or simulated
- disingenuousFeigning ignorance or innocence
- perfunctoryDone with minimal effort
- unconvincingNot able to persuade
- emptilyIn hollow manner
mechanically · flatly · woodenly · lifelessly · automatically · robotically · falsely · superficially
In hollow manner
- bleaklyIn hopeless manner
- desolatelyIn bleak isolation
- forlornlyIn hopeless sadness
- hopelesslyWithout any expectation
numbly · vacantly · despondently · lifelessly · wearily · defeatedly · resignedly · joylessly
feigned
Falsely displayed or simulated
- disingenuousFeigning ignorance or innocence
- perfunctoryDone with minimal effort
- unconvincingNot able to persuade
emptily · mechanically · flatly · woodenly · lifelessly · automatically · robotically · falsely · superficially · half-heartedly
emptily
In hollow manner
- bleaklyIn hopeless manner
- desolatelyIn bleak isolation
- forlornlyIn hopeless sadness
hopelessly · numbly · vacantly · despondently · lifelessly · wearily · defeatedly · resignedly · joylessly · grimly
reverberate
Echo repeatedly, persist
resound · boom · rumble · thunder · vibrate · cavernous · acoustic · tinny · metallic · dull
hollowlysincerely
With genuine feeling
genuinely · earnestly · wholeheartedly · authentically · meaningfully
- hollow outRemove interior contents
- hollowed outInterior material removed
- ring hollowSeem insincere when spoken
- hollowing outRemoving interior material
- hollow victoryTriumph devoid of reward
- hollow legCapacity to consume endlessly
hollow, hollowed, hollowness, hollowing, hollower, hollowest