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hollow words

noun as in lip service

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While he solicits my friendship with flattering and hollow words, he is sunk to a confederate of my fugitive Varchonites.

The phrases about "brotherly love" and "liberty" of the Revolution were hollow words in the ears of sorely stricken peasants.

I turned at the hollow words—hollow in sound as though they came out of a drum.

The phrases about brotherly love and liberty of the Revolution were hollow words in the ears of sorely stricken peasants.

Nor was this enthusiasm confined to hollow words, for all the supplies which the king requested were freely voted him.

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