lip-service

See also: lip service

English

Noun

lip-service (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lip service
   • 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet‎^[1], Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:

     41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.