lip-deep

English

Adjective

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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.