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Definition of Lip service
1. Noun. An expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction.
Generic synonyms: Dissembling, Feigning, Pretence, Pretense
Specialized synonyms: Crocodile Tears
Derivative terms: Hypocritical
Definition of Lip service
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Empty talk; words absent of action or intention. ¹
2. Noun. (slang vulgar) Cunnilingus, the act of using the mouth and tongue to stimulate the female genitals, especially the clitoris and labium. (Sometimes also referred to as giving lip.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lip Service
Literary usage of Lip service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"... section of the Democrats.1 Civil service reform long received the lip service
of both parties, a lip service expressed by both with equal warmth, ..."
2. The Civil Service Law: A Defense of Its Principles, with Corroborative by William Harrison Clarke (1897)
"... 658): " Civil service reform has for some time past received the lip service
of both parties, a lip service expressed by both with equal warmth, ..."
3. Experts in City Government by Edward Augustus Fitzpatrick (1919)
"Not lip service, but Street Service, Health Service, City Service.—On the other
hand, where a city manager government has done its work in the open ..."
4. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"Titles, of themselves, prove little, and it is certain that the Venetians rendered
lip-service to the Prankish emperors as compliantly as to the Greek ..."
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