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janus-faced
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Adjective
  • having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past
    • Janus the two-faced god
  • 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
  • having or concerned with polarities or contrasts
    • a Janus-faced view of history
    • a Janus-faced policy
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