Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having two faces or surfaces.
- adj. Hypocritical or double-dealing; deceitful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having two faces, like the Roman deity Janus.
- Double-faced in intention; double-dealing; practising duplicity.
Wiktionary
- adj. having two faces or plane surfaces
- adj. deceitful, hypocritical or duplicitous
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
- adj. having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past
Etymologies
- From two- + faced. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By ‘faces’ he may have been referring to the two-faced megalith that would appear.”
“So how long do they think two-faced idiots should be allowed to keep the floor?”
“I loved his speech, Thank You President Obama for reminding the World that we are a Peaceful nation, that we are a country of compassion, for far to long we have been seen as the double standard, two-faced bullies Thank you Sir!”
“They don't care that this response from Palin is a classic example of her two-faced, self-contradictory stances on many public issues.”
“I don't write often but this made me sit up and take notice of another two-faced person that will run for office.”
“It's time to stop voting for these two-faced politicians.”
“The two-faced behavior that our politicians have displayed during this entire farce is nothing short of DISGUSTING.”
“How can these two-faced politicians from both sides of the isles claim to hold any morals in their personal lives and then claim they are not compromising themselves when they vote against their own self proclaimed moral beliefs?!”
“Shuwanda was only being Shuwanda—a messy, backstabbing, two-faced bitch.”
“His spectacularly two-faced approach to undocumented immigrants is also typical.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘two-faced’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
U-mark, U-spot, X-ray, Y-prickleback, ox-eyed, arc-eye, big-claw, big-eye, big-eyed, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
About Face
face, about face, about-face, facet, faced, face card, face value, face facts, facetious, Janus-faced, Boniface, volte-face and 70 more...
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anatomopeia
Sounds like you are .........
green-fingered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied, bleary-eyed, hare-brained, loose-tongued, tongue-tied, sure-footed, two-faced, double-jointed, light-fingered, bone idle and 71 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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