lip server

lip server
noun
: one that practices lip service

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • formalist — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, High Churchist, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Middle American, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Philistine, Sabbatarian, Tartuffe, Vicar of Bray, affecter, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, canter …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hypocrite — Synonyms and related words: Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, actor, affecter, ape, attitudinizer, bluffer, canter, canting hypocrite, charlatan, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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  • ranter — Synonyms and related words: Herod, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, blusterer, braggart, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, canter, canting hypocrite, debater, declaimer,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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