Synonyms for lip service
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for lip service
Définition of lip service
Origin :- "something proffered but not performed," 1640s, from lip (n.) + service (n.1). Earlier in same sense was lip-labour (1530s).
- noun empty talk
- He wanted to know whether she felt that faith was a matter of lip service.
- Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
- But it was not in the Marshall nature to support a cause with lip service only.
- Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall (Volume 1 of 4) » by Albert J. Beveridge
- That your professed love for me is only lip service, for you intend to desert me.
- Extract from : « In Strange Company » by Guy Boothby
- Lip service to Christian ethics was not good enough as an argument for this.
- Extract from : « Now It Can Be Told » by Philip Gibbs
- Exalted sentiments were not to his credit when lip service made them detestable.
- Extract from : « The Higher Court » by Mary Stewart Daggett
- Theirs was no lip service; on the contrary, even when worshipping her most devoutly, they would often deny her.
- Extract from : « Erewhon » by Samuel Butler
- German statesmen may protest about their love of peace, but the service they render to peace is only lip service.
- Extract from : « German Problems and Personalities » by Charles Sarolea
- Others give "lip service" to a general objective, but do not like any specific measure that is proposed.
- Extract from : « State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt » by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Hear me—not with lip service, I beseech thee now, but with the earnestness that stays the rushing heart's blood in its way.
- Extract from : « The Bride of Fort Edward » by Delia Bacon
- At this poem Mary professed herself delighted; for she was long past blushing at lip service.
- Extract from : « God Wills It! » by William Stearns Davis
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