lip-deep

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Adjective[edit]

lip-deep (not comparable)

  1. Spoken or claimed but not actually believed; insincere.
    Coordinate term: skin-deep
    • 1870, Edward Garbett, The Soul's Life: Its Commencement, Progress and Maturity, page 115:
      Let us bring no more vain oblations, nor the empty formality of a lip-deep service.

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