Janus-faced : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Janus-faced	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Janus-faced
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Janus-faced adj having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "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 Synonym(s): ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god" Synonym(s): Janus-faced, two- faced
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Janus-faced \Ja"nus-faced`\, a. Double-faced; deceitful. {Janus-faced lock}, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. --Knight.