lip-deep
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lip-deep (not comparable)
- 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.