double-faced en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having two functional faces.
a double-faced hammer
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(not-comparable) Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about “U.S. double-faced diplomacy.” One said that “Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson’s shoes.”
1953 December 7, “ASIA: The Two Anti-Communists”, in TIME:Fame , if not double-faced , is double-mouthed , And with contrary blast proclaims most deed
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
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Synonyms
faithless · double-hearted · infidelitous · viperous · traitorous · double-dealing · reptitious · untrue · fraudful · guiled · proditory · insidious · unleal · reptilian · treachersome · double-crossing · trothless · false-hearted · recreant · guileful · two-faced · doublehearted · Punic · deceitful · deceptory · disleal · perfidious · traitorsome · deceptive · fraudulent · unfaithful · Janus-faced · unsteadfast · unloyal · two-faced · beguiling · double-faced · swike · hollow-hearted · ratlike · disloyal · deceptious · fallacious · false · traitorish · treacherous · mendacious · dastardly · proditorious · nonfaithful · Judaslike · illoyal · Judasly · booky · double-hearted · renegade · traitorlike · viperish · falseheart · traitorly
Translations (6)
fi petollinen (hypocritical; treacherous) · fi kaksinaamainen (hypocritical; treacherous) · bg двуличен (hypocritical; treacherous) · bg лицемерен (hypocritical; treacherous) · fi kavala (hypocritical; treacherous) · tr ikiyüzlü (hypocritical; treacherous)