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Lip service   /lɪp sˈərvəs/   Listen
Lip service

noun
1.
An expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction.  Synonym: hypocrisy.






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"Lip service" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice with its deep cello quality was vibrant with emotion. "You don't know what that means to me. Men have called me many things but few have ever called me friend except in lip service for what they thought they could get out of it. And from you—well, I can only say, I ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi &c (lie) 546 [Lat.]; mystification &c (concealment) 528; simulation &c (imitation) 19; dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague^. sham; pretense, pretending, malingering. lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness^, quackery; charlatanism^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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