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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.
              Essays — First Series
              2
              Mask after mask falls off, and it is terrible to see Janus-faced actuality.
              The Created Legend
              3
              Thus, chaperones may well represent a Janus-faced approach against tumors.
              Pubmed
              4
              For this horned figure is not one man but two: the statue is Janus-faced.
              The Guardian
              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.
              The Irish Times
              Janus-faced through the time