/?k?b.?d ?l?v/loveshownby someone,typicallyachild, inorderto get something that theywant, such asfood（尤指儿童）有所企图地表示亲热（如希望得到食物）SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAffected & insincere
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Praising insincerely or too eagerly(Definition ofcupboard lovefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)Examples from literature
He wants love, not gifts, from his people, a love which on their part does not fawn for other gifts from him in return, like the cupboard love of kittens purring for cream.
Not that there was any cupboard love in his little sweet—she was a bundle of affection.
Perhaps my enthusiasm for California sounds a little like cupboard love.
Then, with the rather bitter cynicism of the old, he wondered for a second whether it was not cupboard love which made Irene put up with him.
Examplesofcupboard love
cupboard loveI hope that it is not justcupboardloveon the part of the regions.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Cupboardloveof this sort, of course, demanded the maintenance of a well-stocked larder.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/cupboard-love##
