Meaning of JANUS-FACED
| Pronunciation: | | 'jeynus `feyst
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- [adj] having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"
- [adj] 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
- [adj] having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
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| | Synonyms: | | ambidextrous, bipolar, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, faced, two-faced |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ja"nus-faced`\, a.
Double-faced; deceitful.
{Janus-faced lock}, one having duplicate faces so as to go
upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on
either side indifferently. --Knight.
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