Definition of "lip-service" []

• Service with the lips or in pretense only; insincere profession of good will or devotion. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "London: The Victoria & Albert Museum's big spring show, "The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900," is about the poets, painters, sculptors, designers and architects who paid lip-service to the slogan "art for art's sake.""
• "And finally you reveal the sham of yourself, the lip-service you pay to the idea that "[f] or a reviewer, I suppose all published work is fair game and, as writers, we should expect to take the good with the bad, review-wise" in your email, when you mewl pitiably that, "if I had received that email, I would have taken down the review.""
• "The age-old assumption that these states would pay lip-service to their dollars and would do anything not be censured by America disappeared after the disaster that was George W Bush."