two-facedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-facedness
Noun
  • Board meetings saw jeering, insults and accusations of dishonesty as members spoke, and frustrated parents accused leadership of lying and maliciously molding the process to a preferred outcome.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • What looks like dishonesty is often an attempt to catch up.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • More irksome is the vein of hypocrisy running through this ‘standard setting’ messaging from Sox leadership.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025
  • The craven hypocrisy of all this no longer registers for the right.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • This stylization gives her a veneer of being disarmingly kind; but ultimately, is a form of deception that caused Sophie to fatally trust this person.
    Tiffany Leigh, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Codenamed Operation Midnight Hammer, the overnight mission relied on deception, aerial refueling, and near-total radio silence to hit Iran's Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities—sites that had withstood weeks of sustained Israeli attacks.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • When confronted, deceit turns their romantic evening into a darkly comedic nightmare.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
  • The nation has now paid a steep price for its deceit and deception.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Far from being some dastardly act of espionage and double-dealing, Cartwright made his fateful choice out of love.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Their perfidy is memorialized in the English language, though.
    Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The prior month, Vice President JD Vance had lodged his own complaints about Europe’s alleged perfidy, threatening that the United States might withdraw its security guarantees from Europe if the EU continued to aggressively regulate U.S. tech companies.
    ANU BRADFORD, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Two-facedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-facedness. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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