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give lip

verb as in back-talk

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verb as in sass

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Cosmetic nurse Vanessa Lee nearly left the industry after being asked to give lip injections to a teenage girl with her mother’s approval.

Many Americans give lip service to the reality of Trump as a fascist cult leader but they, to this point, still largely refuse to accept the implications of what that really means for the country's present and future.

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What has annoyed the internet, as far as I can tell, is that so many nepo babies give lip service to their privilege but don’t really admit that it has made their careers not just possible but predictable.

“They may give lip service to free speech, but they’re not for it. They’re all for censoring conservative thought.”

Her book is a call to “radically rethink addiction care, to do more than give lip service to the throwaway line — addiction is a disease — and to treat it like one.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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