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Overview of adj janus-faced

The adj janus-faced has 3 senses


  • Janus-faced -- (having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy")

  • ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued -- (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)

  • Janus-faced, two-faced -- (having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god")