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Deceitful act few do after reform
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two-faced
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also two faced , "deceitful," 1610s; see two + face (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Two-Faced is the sixth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Barb is the most two-faced woman I've ever met. ▪ I've never met anyone so two-faced : she's sweet and charming to your face, and then goes and complains about you to the boss! EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was at his ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 having two faces or plane surfaces 2 deceitful, hypocritical or duplicitous
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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 ...
Usage examples of two-faced.
Sludge turned out to be a real two-faced skeeze, a weasely whiner who had acted nice enough when it was just the three of us in the green room but shouted and interrupted and made misstatements of facts as soon as we were on the air.
And that rascal Lafont has always passed for a good sansculotte, which is how the two-faced scoundrel comes to have been left in peace at Chavaray.
Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.
Unfortunately, matter turned out to be double-dealing, two-faced, clouding the results of the investigation with the statements that it was this and it was that.
And France recounted with her comic smile Duplicities of Court and Cabinet, The silky female of his male in guile, Wherewith her two-faced Master could amuse A dupe he charmed in sunny beams to bask, Before his feint for camisado struck The lightning moment of the cast-off mask.
The big two-faced clock on the opposite corner in front of the credit jeweler's said six minutes after nine.
They are two-faced bits of DNA that can lie doggo all throughout a person's life, acting just as though they were perfectly normal blueprints for body proteins or the switches turning processes on and off, doing the useful work they are supposed to do .
I'd say what we have here is a lone gunman who hides good on the ridge lines, or somebody playing two-faced.