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Janus-faced

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Ja·nus-faced  (jns-fst)
adj.
Hypocritical.
Janus-faced
adj
two-faced; hypocritical; deceitful
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Adj.1.Janus-faced - having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
bipolar - having two poles
2.Janus-faced - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of anotherJanus-faced - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, double-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful
dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
3.Janus-faced - having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the pastJanus-faced - having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"
two-faced
faced - having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace"
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