double-faced
double-faced adjective: having two functional faces.
Adjective
double-faced (not comparable)
- Having two functional faces.
- a double-faced hammer
- Synonyms:
- two-faced
- Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
- Fame , if not double-faced , is double-mouthed ,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deed1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC - A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about “U.S. double-faced diplomacy.”...1953 December 7, “ASIA: The Two Anti-Communists”, in TIME
- Synonyms:
- double-hearted, Janus-faced, two-faced, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious, deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful
- Fame , if not double-faced , is double-mouthed ,
double-faced meaning in Tamil
double-faced in Tamil
- பாசாங்கான, போலியான
Synonyms of double-faced
- two-faced
- double-hearted
- Janus-faced
- beguiling
- deceitful
- deceptive
- deceptory
- fallacious
- fraudful
- fraudulent
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- mendacious
- booky
- dastardly
- disloyal
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- doublehearted
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judaslike
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- perfidious
- Punic
- ratlike
- recreant
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treacherous
- treachersome
- unfaithful
Questions about double-faced
- What does double-faced mean?
- Double-faced means having two functional faces.
- What is double-faced in Tamil?
- Double-faced in Tamil is பாசாங்கான, போலியான. See Double-faced meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is double-faced?
- Double-faced is an adjective.
Words near double-faced in the dictionary
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