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double-faced

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dou·ble-faced (dbl-fst)
adj.
1. Having two faces or aspects.
2. Usable on both sides: double-faced fabric.
3. Duplicitous; hypocritical.
double-faced
adj
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) (of textiles) having a finished nap on each side; reversible
2. insincere or deceitful
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Adj.1.double-faced - (of fabrics) having faces on both sides; "damask is a double-faced fabric"
two-sided, reversible - capable of being reversed or used with either side out; "a reversible jacket"
2.double-faceddouble-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, ambidextrous, deceitful, Janus-faced
dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Translations
double-faced [ˌdʌblˈfeɪst] ADJ [material] → reversible (pej) [person] → de dos caras


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A person who is near enough to me to be my relation and far enough off from me to be my sweetheart, is a double-faced sort of person that I don't like.
My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie View in context
In these so-called books, the chief lover, or Greek god, as he is admiringly referred to--by the way, they do not say which "Greek god" it is that the gentleman bears such a striking likeness to; it might be hump-backed Vulcan, or double-faced Janus, or even driveling Silenus, the god of abstruse mysteries.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
She was always a double-faced cat; and you ought to have known better.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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