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Definition of Two-faced

1. Adjective. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"

2. Adjective. Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past. "Janus the two-faced god"

Definition of Two-faced

1. Adjective. having two faces or plane surfaces ¹

2. Adjective. deceitful, hypocritical or duplicitous ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Two-faced

two-capsuled two-carbon fragment two-chambered two-channel two-cleft two-component plasma two-decker two-dimensional two-dimensional chromatography two-dimensional figure

two-dimensionality two-double two-eared two-edged two-eyed violet two-faced (current term) two-facedly two-fingered typing two-fisted two-fisted drinker

two-fold two-footed two-four two-fours two-grain spelt two-hand two-handed two-handed backhand two-handed saw

Literary usage of Two-faced

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1902)
"LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS; A two-faced QUESTION MISS EMMA J. FORDYCE, TEACHER OF PHYSICS AND ... A two-faced question—one of silver, looking toward training, ..."

2. Democracy and the Eastern Question: The Problem of the Far East as by Thomas Franklin Millard (1919)
"... orgy of loans—Japan's two-faced policy—Attitude of other powers—The rake's progress—Sowing seeds of internal dissension— Japan in Shantung—Establishment ..."

3. Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1903)
"Then they two faced about. Sometime afterward they two now faced back, and, ... Now they two faced about. And as quickly as they two faced about again the ..."

4. Studies of the Soul by Jonathan Brierley (1903)
"On Being Two-Faced. THE term two-faced is heard not infrequently at ... But what is it to be two-faced ? The severity of the condemnation attached to the ..."

5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1899)
"Would it not be a far more elegant way of interpreting the two-faced image, ... But now let the interpretation of the two- faced image be produced. ..."

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