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deceitful
Deceptive in multiple ways
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  1. Deceptive in multiple ways
  2. Tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat
  3. Deliberately misleading; deceptive.
treacherous
Exhibiting treachery.
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  1. Exhibiting treachery.
  2. Deceitful; inclined to betray.
  3. Characterized by unforeseen or hidden hazards; dangerous or deceptive:
janus-faced
Hypocritical.
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  1. Hypocritical.
  2. Two-faced; deceiving
  3. Double-faced; deceitful
hypocritical
Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite. [from mid-16th c.]
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  1. Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite. [from mid-16th c.]
  2. Characterized by hypocrisy:
  3. Being a hypocrite:
pecksniffian
Hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious.
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  1. Hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious.
  2. Falsely moralistic; hypocritical; insincere
  3. Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.
pharisaic
Emphasizing or observing the letter but not the spirit of religious law; self-righteous; sanctimonious
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  1. Emphasizing or observing the letter but not the spirit of religious law; self-righteous; sanctimonious
  2. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
  3. Of the Pharisees
phony
Spurious, deceptive, or false:
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  1. Spurious, deceptive, or false:
  2. Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
  3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest:
sanctimonious
Pretending to be holy or pious; affecting sanctity
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  1. Pretending to be holy or pious; affecting sanctity
  2. Self-righteous, smug, etc.
  3. Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
double
Twice as much in size, strength, number, or amount:
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  1. Twice as much in size, strength, number, or amount:
  2. Accommodating or designed for two:
  3. Characterized by duplicity; deceitful:
double-dealing
Duplicitous or deceitful; treacherous.
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  1. Duplicitous or deceitful; treacherous.
  2. (Of a person) Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
double-faced
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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  1. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
  2. Having two functional faces.
  3. Having a finished nap on both sides
Find another word for two-faced. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for two-faced, like: hypocritical, deceitful, caviling, treacherous, janus-faced, false, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical and phony.

Sentence Examples

  • The two-faced cat may have three or four eyes, one or two esophagus's leading to the stomach and in at least one suspected case, two brains.

  • Thus, the simple reflection that the door is used for the double purpose of entrance and exit leads to the notion of the Janus of the state as bifrons (" two-faced"): the thought of the door as the first part of the house to which one comes, produces the more abstract idea of Janus as the "god of beginning," in which character he has special charge of the first beginnings of human life (Consevius), the first hour of the day, the Calends of the month and the first month of the year in the later calendar: for the same reason his name takes the first place in the indigitamenta.

  • In pictorial art Agni is always represented as red, two-faced, suggesting his destructive and beneficent qualities, and with three legs and seven arms.

  • Two-Faced Woman (1941 ), in which a newly happy Garbo does the rumba and goes swimming, was a disaster.

  • two-faced god Janus, Burne-Jones (see another version at the William Morris Gallery ).

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