two-facedness

Definition of two-facednessnext

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Noun
  • Participants are urged to restrain harmful speech, dishonesty, anger and ego.
    Irfan Sarwar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • What matters most is the dishonesty.
    Julian Givi, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Stoic, steady under pressure, and with an unflinching gaze that does most of the talking for him, Chris has no patience for hypocrisy or cruelty and holds fast to a quiet moral code rooted in fairness and restraint.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Hatred, prejudice, and hypocrisy.
    Marc Jacobs, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This deception is slicker than a greased pig!
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026
  • One of the best seasons of the show so far, season 4 of HBO’s finance-world saga dialed the drama, deception, corporate-speak, stress, and moral ambiguity to the max.
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Drama, deceit, and fierce gameplay are the hallmarks of each episode.
    Alison McDermott, Architectural Digest, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Such deceit is incompatible with public service.
    Diana Paulsen, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But that rhetoric sounded hollow in the face of its dalliance with a drug-smuggling double-dealing despot like Noriega.
    Time, Time, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Making his Broadway debut, Burr is a cyclone as the fast-talking, double-dealing Dave Moss, who springs a plan to steal the leads on his unwilling accomplice, George Aaronow (McKean, drolly exasperated).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the mayor’s dramatic tale of his predecessor’s fiscal fiddling was designed with a clear political agenda in mind: both to underline the magnitude of the problem and to identify the villains responsible for this perfidy.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2026
  • More recently, an al Qaeda operative and suspected mastermind behind the 2000 USS Cole bombing — in which suicide bombers sidled up alongside a US warship, waved to the sailors and then detonated explosives — was charged with perfidy, among other crimes.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Allen’s combo of flip insincerity and kindly concern is a terrific treat, recalling Bill Murray at his doofy best.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Two-facedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-facedness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.

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