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Double-faced

adjective

(of fabrics) having faces on both sides.

Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced. "A double-dealing double agent" , "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"

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"Double-faced" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the breeze to which we have referred, and while the smooth ocean glowed in the mellow light that ushered in the day, the attention of those on board the Avenger (as we shall call the double-faced schooner when under red colours) was attracted to one of the more distant cliffs, on the summit of which human ...

— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

... deplore I was gravelled—an expression which your ladyship, moving in the higher circles, will be so good as to consider tantamount to knocked over. Small likewise—a name by which I refer to another party, a friend of mine that your ladyship is not acquainted with—got to be so close and double-faced that at times it wasn't easy to keep one's hands off his 'ead. However, what with the exertion of my humble abilities, and what with the help of a mutual friend by the name of Mr. Tony Weevle (who is of a high ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

Words linked to "Double-faced" : double-dealing, dishonorable, dishonest, two-sided, reversible, double-tongued