adjective
- Having or concerned with polarities or contrasts.
- usage: "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
- 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
- synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
- Having two faces-one looking to the future and one to the past.
- usage: "Janus the two-faced god"
- synonyms: two-faced
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