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单词 cupboard love
释义

cupboard love


noun

a personal attachment that appears to be motivated by love but in fact stems from the hope of gain.

Origin of cupboard love

First recorded in 1750–60

OTHER WORDS FROM cupboard love

cupboard lover, noun

Words nearby cupboard love

cup and cover, cup-and-saucer vine, cupbearer, cup biopsy forceps, cupboard, cupboard love, cupcake, cup coral, CUPE, cupel, cupellation
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Example sentences from the Web for cupboard love

  • There's cupboard-love, at any rate; but never mind, let's go and listen to this opera.

    Sarah's School Friend|May Baldwin
  • Is even then love for one's country but cupboard-love after all?

    Kenelm Chillingly, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British Dictionary definitions for cupboard love

cupboard love

noun

a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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