Definitions for: Janus-faced


[adj] having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"
[adj] 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
[adj] having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ja"nus-faced`, a.
Double-faced; deceitful.

Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go
upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on
either side indifferently. --Knight.

Synonyms: ambidextrous, bipolar, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, faced, two-faced

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