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English Dictionary: double-tongued by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
double-tongued
adj
  1. 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Double-tongued \Dou"ble-tongued`\, a.
      Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
  
               Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued.
                                                                              --1 Tim. iii.
                                                                              8.
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