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DOUBLE FACED

Synonyms within Context: DOUBLE FACED

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Commercial Usage: DOUBLE FACED

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: DOUBLE FACED

Expression using "DOUBLE FACED": double faced person. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOUBLE FACED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

double faced

8

double faced satin ribbon

8

double faced tape

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOUBLE FACED

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.

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Anagrams: DOUBLE FACED

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.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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