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Two-faced   /tu-feɪst/   Listen
Two-faced

adjective
1.
Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.  Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced.  "A double-dealing double agent" , "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"
2.
Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past.  Synonym: Janus-faced.






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"Two-faced" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rose. "I came across the alley," and she nodded toward the big apartment house. It now turned a white brick face to her. Mary Rose almost forgot her errand when she saw that. In Mifflin houses were the same color all the way around. "Why—why, it's two-faced!" she cried. "The front is all red and now the back is all white. It's just ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett

... the dungeon-room, the which may be seen to this day; and though his captivity was afterwards somewhat relaxed, he was kept a prisoner in the castle till after the death of the Queen Dowager, and the breaking-up of her two-faced councils. This exploit won my grandfather great favour, and he scarcely needed to show the signet-ring when he told his message from the Lords ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... sullen creed can bind In chains like these the all-embracing Mind; No! two-faced bigot, thou dost ill reprove The sensual, selfish, yet benignant Jove, And praise a tyrant throned in lonely pride, Who loves himself, and cares for naught beside; Who gave thee, summoned from primeval night, A thousand laws, and not a single right,— A heart to feel, and quivering ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Words linked to "Two-faced" :   double-dealing, faced, dishonest, dishonorable



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