lip service

lip service
n
1. insincerity, artificiality, disin-genuousness, uncandidness, mealy-mouthedness; flattery, smooth talk, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, Inf. phoniness; hypocrisy, falseheartedness, falseness, two-facedness, duplicity; dissemblance, dissimulation; simulation, show, false show, false air or front; pose, posing, posture; guile, wiliness, mockery, hollow mockery; crossed fingers, tongue in cheek, tokenism, token gesture, empty gesture, crocodile tears, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. soft soap, Inf. put-on, Inf. moonshine, Inf. eyewash, Inf. hogwash.
2. sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, false piety, pietism, piousness; self-righteousness, cant, mummery, drivel, snivel, snuffle; unctuousness, oiliness.

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