Found 2 items, similar to Janus-faced.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Janus-faced
Janus-faced
adj 1: having or concerned with polarities or contrasts;
“a
Janus-faced view of history”;
“a Janus-faced policy”
2: 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
[syn:
ambidextrous,
deceitful,
double-dealing,
duplicitous,
two-faced,
double-faced,
double-tongued]
3: having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the
past;
“Janus the two-faced god” [syn:
two-faced]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Janus-faced
Janus-faced
\Ja"nus-faced`\, a.
Double-faced; deceitful.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]