lip service
Example Sentences
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Fifty years of lip service to self-determination for Greenland doesn’t add up, if it ever did.
They pay lavish lip service to difficult and demanding ideals without developing the capabilities required to defend them.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the cycle of "paying lip service to the potential of the North" had to end.
From BBC
Preparing Americans for this change can’t be just lip service with no follow-through.
From MarketWatch
They may ask for others’ input and give lip service to their ideas, but it quickly becomes clear that “it’s my way or the highway.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
