lip-server
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Noun
lip-server (plural lip-servers)
- Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
- 1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, as addressed to a village congregation, page 127:
- ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;
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