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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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Examples for "deceitful"
1
He is in the fierce Camp: he is in the deceitful Court.
2
This is not only wrong in content and process, but again deceitful.
3
He and others in a similar deceitful condition are influencing the Emperor.
4
Not after she'd led him to believe her motives were so deceitful.
5
They imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
1
There are plenty of shady doctors and duplicitous friends and disloyal team-mates.
2
It's a fitting preoccupation given the animalistic and duplicitous drama that follows.
3
Must we conduct ourselves with the duplicitous politenesses of our English neighbors?
4
But he was also a duplicitous man, a chronic adulterer, ruthlessly ambitious.
5
In consequence, our negotiations over the terms of these Bills were strangely duplicitous.
1
He's trained himself to be ambidextrous and learned to control his reflexes.
2
Tet the wretched Sardian paid a long price for his ambidextrous hexameter.
3
Groth is ambidextrous, able to change hands when the situation requires.
4
Or just this graffiti wisdom: I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
5
But neither is officially ambidextrous -rather, they have what is called cross-dominance
1
Also, there is much in his career of political connivance, double-dealing, assassination.
2
She was accused of double-dealing, of supporting the Tories rather than Labour.
3
In her great, unclouded eyes he had found no lurking-place for double-dealing.
4
We wish to do nothing darkly; frank republicans, we acknowledge no double-dealing.
5
Bob isn't the kind to get onto treachery or double-dealing very quick.
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The Peigan warriors are double-tongued; they know that they have hid the Pale-face prisoners.
2
The Kansas-Nebraska act was a double-tongued statute, and the Cincinnati platform a Janus-faced banner.
3
Margaret said she thought she was weeping because they were so double-tongued with her.
4
It was a contest in which Leicester revelled-simplicityand single-mindedness against the multifarious and double-tongued.
5
Looks like a standard Mourning Rose double-tongued turnbolt.
1
The Storri vanity owned an appetite for two-faced triumphs of that feather.
2
Unjust and two-faced, but what else can you expect from an esthete?
3
Germany, as I have pointed out, has been conducting a two-faced propaganda.
4
The worst of them had been a two-faced lawyer, van der Donck.
5
Drapier: Almost all politicians are two-faced in what we say about the Garda.
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Obviously it was not lack of skill that produced the double-faced phrases.
2
The great improvement originated with the introduction of 'the double-faced sluice-cock.'
3
Pedro was dull, honorable, and frank; Juan was hawk-eyed and double-faced.
4
A double-faced T-shirt in coated grey fabric and matching trousers at Matthew Miller.
5
He is ruthless and pitiless, but I do not think he is double-faced.
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.
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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.