Two-faced

Definition: Two-faced

Two-faced

Adjective

1. 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"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray.

2. Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "two-faced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Synonyms: Two-faced

Crosswords: Two-faced

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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Books

• Labor, America's two-faced movement (reference)

• The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, V. 89) (reference)

• Two-faced (reference)

• Two-Faced Woman (Harlequin Presents, No 1541) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Two-Faced Woman (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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The two-faced party system. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Chinese 

二面对. (various references)

Finnish

kaksinaamainen. (various references)

Korean 

둘 면하�". (various references)

Manx

lhiam-lhiat (fickle person, inconsistent, turncoat, Vicar of Bray), foalsey (affected, bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, ersatz, fallacious, false, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, sham, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, wrong, wrong as note). (various references)

Pig Latin

o-facedtway

Portuguese

hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-tongued), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), com duas caras (double-faced). (various references)

Russian 

лживый (deceitful, double-tongued, false, mendacious, sklent, two-tongued, untruthful), двуличный (ambidextrous, double faced, duplicious, two faced, two-tongued). (various references)

Turkmen 

ikiяьzli. (various references)

Vietnamese 

lá mặt lá trái (double-dealing). (various references)

duplex, duplicem, duplices, duplici, duplicia. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coated, wafted.

-3 letters: acted, cadet, cawed, coted, cowed, decaf, defat, faced, facet, fated, octad, tawed, towed.

-4 letters: aced, awed, cade, cafe, cate, coat, coda, code, coed, coft, cote, dace, daft, date, dato, dawt, deaf, deco, deft, doat, dote, face, fact, fade, fado, fate, feat, feod, feta, odea, owed, tace, taco, toad, toea, toed.

+5 letters: thenceforward.