Janus-faced

Ja·nus-faced

J0016300 (jā′nəs-fāst′)adj. Hypocritical.

Janus-faced

adj two-faced; hypocritical; deceitful

Ja′nus-faced`

adj. two-faced; deceitful. [1675–85]

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	Janus-faced - having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"bipolar - having two poles
	2.	Janus-faced - 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.Thackeraydouble-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, double-faced, ambidextrous, deceitfuldishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
	3.	Janus-faced - having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"two-facedfaced - having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace"