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Meanings of janus-faced in English
Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.
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Usage of janus-faced in English
1
A friend is Janus-faced; he looks to the past and the future.
2
Mask after mask falls off, and it is terrible to see Janus-faced actuality.
3
Thus, chaperones may well represent a Janus-faced approach against tumors.
4
For this horned figure is not one man but two: the statue is Janus-faced.
5
Politics is in a sense Janus-faced, concerned with both the time-bound struggle for power and the sort of utopian imagination lauded by Robert Grant.