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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
two-faced
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 most two-faced in his dealings with Turgenev.
▪ He was such a two-faced little man that finding these hysterically funny didn't feel wrong.
▪ I wanted to put all that two-faced stuff behind us and settle down with Mary-Claude to live a half-way normal life.
▪ The Government's attitude is two-faced - they are also devoting all their energies to preventing the directive from coming into force.
▪ Whoever you blame on the scum transfer fiasco he came out of it as a two-faced hypocrite.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
two-faced

also two faced, "deceitful," 1610s; see two + face (n.).

Wiktionary
two-faced

a. 1 having two faces or plane surfaces 2 deceitful, hypocritical or duplicitous

WordNet
two-faced

  1. 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 and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]

  2. having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god" [syn: Janus-faced]

Wikipedia
Two-faced

Two-faced may refer to:

  • Two-Faced (Tankard album), by German thrash metal band Tankard
  • Two Faced (Burst album)
  • " 2 Faced", a song by Louise
  • Two-faced, or diprosopus, a congenital disorder
Two-Faced (Tankard album)

Two-Faced is the sixth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard.

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.