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janus-faced
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective janus-faced has 3 senses
- janus-faced(s = adj.all) Array - having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
- janus-faced(s = adj.all) ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-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"; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"
- janus-faced(s = adj.all) two-faced - having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"
CIDE DICTIONARY
janus-faced, a.
Double-faced; deceitful. [1913 Webster]
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