Lip-deep

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Spoken or claimed but not actually believed; insincere. not-comparable

    "Let us bring no more vain oblations, nor the empty formality of a lip-deep service."

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"Let us bring no more vain oblations, nor the empty formality of a lip-deep service."

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