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Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103, This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage.
Meaning relationships
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a show of affection motivated by selfishness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: kindness, benignity
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Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Irish:
grá don ailp
— insincere love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange
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Irish:
grá na hailpe
— insincere love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange
