"ring hollow" meaning in English

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      "form": "ringing hollow",
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    {
      "form": "rang hollow",
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      "form": "rung hollow",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1901, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 9, in The Hero:",
          "text": "In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow, awkward, even impertinent. He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious.",
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          "ref": "2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Recognising your mistake and atoning for it is, of course, to be applauded, but after all the decades of cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy, it rang hollow for many.",
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        "To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing."
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        "(idiomatic) To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing."
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        {
          "word": "ring false"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to seem to be false",
          "word": "klinge hult"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "ring hollow"
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "rang hollow",
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        "past"
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              144,
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          "ref": "2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:",
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        "To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing."
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        "(idiomatic) To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing."
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      "word": "ring false"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to seem to be false",
      "word": "klinge hult"
    }
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  "word": "ring hollow"
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