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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Janus-faced adj 1: having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy" [syn: {Janus-faced}] 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}, {Janus-faced}, {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: {Janus-faced}, {two-faced}]
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