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| Adj. | 1. | Janus-faced - having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy" |
| 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.Thackeray
dishonest, 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"
faced - having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace"
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bipolar - having two poles
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