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Janus-faced   /dʒˈeɪnəs-feɪst/   Listen
Janus-faced

adjective
1.
Having or concerned with polarities or contrasts.  "A Janus-faced policy"
2.
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, two-faced.  "A double-dealing double agent" , "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"
3.
Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past.  Synonym: two-faced.






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"Janus-faced" Quotes from Famous Books



... who, by their activity in assisting to apprehend the fugitive comrades whom they had so meanly deserted, and their offers to give evidence against them, had purchased an exemption from punishment, and excepting also the Janus-faced Chandler, who, by his duplicity, had contributed more than any other man, perhaps, towards this catastrophe, but who now contrived to make even his iniquities count in his favor. [Footnote: As the acts of this notorious personage, whose character we have ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson



Words linked to "Janus-faced" :   bipolar, dishonorable, faced, dishonest



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