Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coming from the lips only; not arising from the heart; not cordial or genuine.
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Examples
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Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?
Middlemarch 1871
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Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?
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They made the tour of the room in silence after this; but Bardo's lip-born maxims were as powerless over the passion which had been moving him, as if they had been written on parchment and hung round his neck in
Romola George Eliot 1849
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Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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