lip-server

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Noun

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lip-server (plural lip-servers)

  1. Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
    • 1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, as addressed to a village congregation, page 127:
      ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;

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