Synonyms for lip service
lip ser·vice

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1. hypocrisy, lip servicenoun

   an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

   Synonyms:
   hypocrisy

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1. • Pretense

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1. Devorah Badee:

   What it says to [ black women ] is that Kamala HarrisMedia continue to get the kind of lip service that Kamala HarrisMedia've always got, not just from the party but from the media who talk about diversity all the time, but they fall in love with candidates and they forget the others.

2. Tammy McDonald-Anderson:

   He better be prepared and be doing research about what's important to us, we won't take lip service.

3. Joe Borelli:

   He's the one who's telling us he's not going to charge people with gun crimes and fully prosecute them, according to the law. So it's just lip service from people like him. And unfortunately, that has real-world consequences, every single police action, whether it's a domestic violence response like this or a traffic stop, has the potential of going south. And if police officers are not going to be protected by the law, if the prosecutors are going to go after the people, then we have to reconsider whether it's even worth the risk of sending cops in the first place.

4. Nelson Moses:

   These are helpful but seem to be reductive and appear to pay mere lip service.

5. Bill Clinton:

   You're going to have to come together as a movement and say, 'Here's what we want done about it,' because you can get lip service from as many white people as you can pack into Yankee Stadium.