lip-server

noun

Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.

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Meanings

nounlip-server (plural lip-servers)

plural lip-servers

  1. Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.

    ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;

    1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, as addressed to a village congregation, page 127
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