Lip Service

Word LIP SERVICE
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To just say something but not actually do it. To pretend that you believe a certain thing but not practice that belief. Urban Dictionary

Telling someone what they want to hear. could be used to get something, or get out of a lecture Urban Dictionary

Saying something but not really meaning it, often like kissing-up. Urban Dictionary

1. empty talk, speech that the speaker will not likely act upon 2. oral sex, especially cunnilingus Urban Dictionary

To say something just for the sake of something or someone else Urban Dictionary

1. When someone says they're going to do something when they aren't going to do anything to support it. Bankers often give lip service. 2. The act of licking a vagina. Urban Dictionary

Pretending to believe or feel something Urban Dictionary

A punk-goth clothing company based out of California. Urban Dictionary

Insincere support or respect expressed but not put into practice Urban Dictionary

In lesbian culture, oral sex. Urban Dictionary

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The word "lip-service" in example sentences

Can I interest you in coming to speak at our Legion on Americanism - why this country is head and shoulders above all the rest in LIVING the freedoms that other countries only pay lip-service to? ❋ Unknown (2010)

As such, their analysis is unduly simplistic, but then their history of support for copyright has always been lip-service only. ❋ Rick Carnes (2011)

And this is not merely lip-service to the trendiness of the local food movement. ❋ Sarah Lenz (2009)

And by the mid- to late 1980s the cause shifted: We Evangelicals paid lip-service to "stopping abortion," but the real issue was keeping Republicans in power and keeping Evangelical leaders in the ego-stroking loop of having access to power. ❋ Frank Schaeffer (2011)

This is especially true in the American context where all the talk of "the American People" is merely lip-service. ❋ Edward Kubow (2011)

All large companies like to display a veneer of honesty and self-sacrificing largesse, but it is almost always lip-service: when it comes to a choice between principle and profit, principle is the loser. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And finally you reveal the sham of yourself, the lip-service you pay to the idea that "[f] or a reviewer, I suppose all published work is fair game and, as writers, we should expect to take the good with the bad, review-wise" in your email, when you mewl pitiably that, "if I had received that email, I would have taken down the review." ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Conservatives pay lip-service to small government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whenever he does manage to get a conversation with a city employee, its only "lip-service" he gets in exchange. ❋ Ben E. Kessler (2011)

Eighty acres of brown field land opposite the Etihad Stadium have been earmarked for a project that will cost at least £100m and, City hope, deliver a production line of homegrown talent able to compete in the Champions League and a convincing riposte to accusations of paying lip-service to Uefa's financial fair play rules. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They give lip-service to health care reform but in the end are tied to the interests of the health insurance industry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

London: The Victoria & Albert Museum's big spring show, "The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900," is about the poets, painters, sculptors, designers and architects who paid lip-service to the slogan "art for art's sake." ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

The age-old assumption that these states would pay lip-service to their dollars and would do anything not be censured by America disappeared after the disaster that was George W Bush. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The spokesman for the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has called on the U.N. Security Council to do more than pay lip-service to the people of Darfur as officials of the world body begin a scheduled visit to Sudan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The company] pays lip service to [equal rights], but has only one woman working for them and she's [underpaid]. ❋ Athene Airheart (2004)

you: yea im [listening] [clean the bathroom] im [on it] dad: you're not just giving me lip service are you ❋ Bon Roxor (2004)

He [paid] lip service to his [boss] because he [wants] to get promoted. ❋ Camiangel (2004)

He gave lip service to the idea of [socialized medicine] but did not tell [the government] about his [thoughts] on the matter. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2009)

[The boy] paid his father lip service but as [usual] went [and did] his own thing. ❋ Andrew Taylor (2004)

Person A: Oh, don't worry, [I'll take] care of that [right away]. Person B: [Meh], that's probably just lip service, I won't get too excited. ❋ Poncho Franzwarez (2010)

Teacher:"Now say you're [sorry]" [Student]:"...[Sorry]" ❋ Aeon102 (2004)

"Hey, great jacket. [Where'd] [you get it]?" "[Lip Service]!" ❋ Doctorskeletor (2007)

Many feminist organisations [proclaim] "Feminism = equality." Ironically these same organisations are very quiet when [sexism] is against men but very loud if against women. Hence, [lip service] ❋ SsoulBlade (2017)

[Jane] gave [Lucy] [serious] lip service last night. ❋ Your Little Sister's Boyfriend (2006)

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