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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "DOUBLE FACED": double faced person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
double faced | 8 |
double faced satin ribbon | 8 |
double faced tape | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DOUBLE FACED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nga të dyja anët, me dy pamje, me dy fytyra (double-hearted), me dy faqe (double), me dy aspekte, hipokrit (affected, double dealing, double-dealer, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, Pecksniff, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, phoney, phony). (various references) | |
Arabic | منافق (dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, prig, two faced), مراء (dissembler, hypocrite, insincere, two faced, two sided), غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ذو وجهين (reversible, sneaky, two faced). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с две лица (reversible, two faced), лицемерен (canting, false, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, pharisaic, simon-pure, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced), двуличен (ambidextrous, double, double dealing, double-minded, double-tongued, hypocritical, intriguing, janus-faced, two faced). (various references) | |
Czech | falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references) | |
Danish | dobbelt boelgepap (double lined, single wall, single-flute). (various references) | |
Dutch | dubbel (double, dual). (various references) | |
French | double face (double lined, double sided, double-sided), hypocrite (double-minded, double-tongued), double face, deux visages. (various references) | |
German | einwellig (double lined, single wall, single-flute). (various references) | |
Greek | διπρόσωποσ (disingenuous, two faced). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétszínû (ambidextrous, dichromatic, double dealing, double-hearted, double-tongued, insincere, pussyfoot, two faced), álnok (deceitful, deceptive, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, false-hearted, felon, hollow-hearted, perfidious, treacherous). (various references) | |
Italian | monostrato (double lined, monomolecular layer, single wall, single-flute). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oubleday acedfay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nesincer (backhand, devious, disingenuous, hollow-hearted, insincere, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous, truthless), cu douã feţe (ancipital, reversible, two faced). (various references) | |
Russian | двусторонний (bilateral, bipartite, double sided, double-sided, dual-sided, reversible, two sided, two way, two-sided), двухбойковый, двуличный (ambidextrous, duplicious, two faced, two-faced, two-tongued). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dvoličan (ambidextrous, double-minded), s dva lica (reversible, two faced). (various references) | |
Spanish | de dos caras (double-sided), reversible (double-sided, reversible, reversionary), hipócrita (ambidexter, canting, double dealing, double-handed, double-hearted, hypocrite, hypocritical, lip, two faced), bilateral (bilateral, double-sided, two sided, two way). (various references) | |
Swedish | hycklande (canting, feigningly, hypocritical, insincere, janus-faced, two faced), falsk (bad, bogus, devious, disingenuous, dud, dummy, fake, false, flash, forged, fulsome, hollow, imitation, insincere, janus-faced, meretricious, mistaken, mock, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, postiche, pseudo, sham, supposititious, two faced, unsound, untrue, wrong). (various references) | |
Turkish | iki yüzlü (ambidexter, ambidextrous, bilateral, disingenuous, dissembler, double dealing, double-dealer, double-minded, double-tongued, false, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pharisaic, pharisaical, shammer, slimy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, two sided). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дволичний (ambidexter, ambidextrous, two faced, twofold), двобічний (ambidextrous, two sided). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-d-e-e-f-l-o-u" | |
-2 letters: beclouded, boldfaced. | |
-3 letters: befouled, befuddle, belauded, boldface, educable. | |
-4 letters: abduced, becloud, beefalo, belaced, cladode, clouded, codable, debacle, defaced, doubled, feculae. | |
-5 letters: abduce, aboded, adduce, albedo, balded, beaded, beadle, beflea, befoul, belaud, bladed, boucle, buddle, cabled, caudle, cedula, coaled, coddle, colead, coulee, cuddle, daubed, decade, decode, deduce, deface, deflea, delead, delude, deuced, doable, double, dueled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Expressions 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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