what does Janus-faced mean?
JANUS-FACED as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- having two faces–one looking to the future and one to the past
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- Meaning
- marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
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- she was a deceitful scheming little thing- Israel Zangwill
- a double-dealing double agent
- a double-faced infernal traitor and
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- Meaning
- having or concerned with polarities or contrasts
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- a Janus-faced view of history
- a Janus-faced policy
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