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Lip-service. World English Historical Dictionary

Lip-service. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lip-service [See LIP sb. 6 a (b).] Service of the lip; service that is proffered but not performed.

1 1644.  Direct. Publ. Worship, Pref. 2. Pleasing themselves in their lip-service in bearing a part in it.

2 1825.  J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 419. No lip-service for me.

3 1850.  Syd. Dobell, Roman, i. Poet. Wks. 1875, I. 15. They … subdued the world And with superior scorn heard its lip-service.

4 1891.  Hall Caine, Scapegoat, xiv. People who had showed him lip-service when he was thought to be rich.

5   So Lip-server, one whose service is in profession only.

6 1860.  Dickens, in All Year Round, No. 44. 419/2. Such a noisy lip-server as that pauper.

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