janus-faced

  • (s) having or concerned with polarities or contrasts
    • a Janus-faced view of history
    • a Janus-faced policy
  • (s) 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
    double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-faced,
  • (s) having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past
    • Janus the two-faced god
    two-faced,

Synonyms

double-dealing double-tongued duplicitous two-faced ambidextrous deceitful double-faced

Words of close approximity