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lip service
noun
- insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only:
He paid only lip service to the dictator.
lip service
noun
- insincere support or respect expressed but not put into practice
lip service
- Insincere agreement; to “pay lip service” is to consent in one's words while dissenting in one's heart: “The boss's support of affirmative action was merely paying lip service; he never committed himself to it in any substantial way.”
Other Words From
- lip server noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of lip service1
Idioms and Phrases
Verbal but insincere expression of agreement or support. It is often put as pay or give lip service , as in They paid lip service to holding an election next year, but they had no intention of doing so . [Mid-1600s]Example Sentences
Some of this is clearly marketing lip service, and far greater regulatory efforts are needed to help nudge consumers into more sustainable choices, and place checks on a slow-moving industry that contributes heavily to climate change.
We thought people kind of paid lip service to it, but apparently it’s very important to them.
The influencer equity gap contrasts with the lip service that so many marketers have paid to diversity, equity and inclusion in the past year.
Indeed, for many years — with a few notable exceptions — marketers paid lip service to doing their bit.
The question is whether companies are just paying lip service to the idea of doing good.
As always, its leaders paid lip service to lofty ideals to obscure the ugly base alloys.
The missus and the kids pay intermittent lip service to living on a farm.
“Non-apology”, “disingenuous” and “lip service” were a few of the choice words expressed.
As Democrats we need to speak much more boldly about how we address inequality and not just pay lip service to these ideas.
People have been paying lip-service to globalization and the blahblahblah.
At this poem Mary professed herself delighted; for she was long past blushing at lip service.
How far—and this was more vital—are they rendering lip-service to social organisations?
Ofttimes a good frown to an unwise friend is all that is necessary to stop this "lip service" flattery.
Since it was their show and their property, I couldn't see any reason why they made this odd lip-service to politeness.
German statesmen may protest about their love of peace, but the service they render to peace is only lip service.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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