Translations for „lip service“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

ˈlip ser·vice N no pl pej

lip service

besedna podpora f

to pay lip service to sth

[samo] verbalno podpirati kaj/se opredeliti za kaj

Usage examples with lip service

to pay lip service to sth

[samo] verbalno podpirati kaj/se opredeliti za kaj

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I did so, but his answer was mere lip service.

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Dale's redeeming quality was his ability to guilt everybody into paying lip service to rule of law; his weakness was his navet.

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As such, government pronouncements are skeptically seen as mere lip service of politicians attempting to placate the electorate and prevent more miner unrest.

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Issues that as far as the organizers are concerned are being neglected and tend to disappear behind general statements and lip service.

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By his reckoning, military necessity knew no choice, and law required only lip service.

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And it suggests you are secretly rolling your eyes and paying lip service to the notion of honest and pure self-love.

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What is produced by ritualisation, has the quality of a lip service.

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We may pay lip service to feeling bad about the real-life impact, but we love our trades.

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Early evaluations of the donor programs have criticized the integrated conservation and development approach for paying no more than lip service to development.

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Meritocracy also has been criticized by egalitarians as a mere myth, which serves only to justify the status quo, with its proponents only giving lip service to equality.

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