ADJECTIVE
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marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
a double-dealing double agent
a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer
she was a deceitful scheming little thing -
having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past
Janus the two-faced god
How To Use two-faced In A Sentence
- As the prime contractor, Raytheon will integrate new electronics, computer hardware and mission software to upgrade the existing two-faced, phased-array antenna facility at the remote site.
- I know politics is all about being two-faced, but surely this one beats most.
- Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
- Ministers and loyalist deputies praised the speech, but opponents suggested he was being two-faced.
- We should trust our hunches no more than we trust two-faced spokesmen and spokeswomen. Times, Sunday Times
- In this case, the face cards, all of which were, not coincidentally, two-faced. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
- I suggest that this attitude might come in pretty handy in the music business - a notoriously two-faced industry where companies will exploit talent in the name of making a few quid.
- The protracted tape-recorded inquisition of Markham has only a few diverting moments—for instance, when Kubrick is quizzing the historian about Talleyrand and Napoleon's two-faced police chief, Fouché: How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
- The two arresting pieces had the musicians seated on the floor, firstly to play with sticks on large, narrow - "waisted", two-faced drums. The Hindu - Front Page
- But on this matter of trade, conference, Europe is two-faced: demanding market opening from the poor, but practising protectionism to defend their own special interests.
