noun

• Affection that is feigned in order to obtain something.

  ‘Midge holds her son and her daughter-in-law by cupboard love, having become an excellent cook’

  More example sentences

  • ‘His attempt at cupboard love by saying that a possible anagram of dayorama is ‘adora-amy’, doesn't help.’
  • ‘Throughout Jung's lifetime, most psychologists maintained that children were passive recipients of maternal care and that they became attached to their mothers because they were fed by them (the so-called cupboard love theory).’