two-facedness

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Noun
  • Another 24% of participants cited poor leadership, dishonesty and personal dislikes as their reason for disapproving.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Her cross-examination — with its rapid-fire accusations, caustic tone and presumption of dishonesty — had felt eerily familiar after years of verbal abuse.
    Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the final season of Handmaid’s, Lydia grew increasingly disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the ruling class of Commanders, who do not live up to Gilead’s religious ideals.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Democrats also run the risk of hypocrisy.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • However genuine their connection, their paths were forged in deception and self-loathing.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Their commitment to the deception has no limit.
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Consider this evilmeister’s brazen acts of treason and revenge, unbounded deceit, swinish immorality and negative role modeling.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Taking someone’s money by deceit is generally not allowed, and the misrepresentations contained in the contract could serve as proof of the alleged fraud.
    Robert L. Boone, Sportico.com, 31 Mar. 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
  • Any time there is a crisis in Iran, the 1953 British-American coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh is dusted off as Exhibit A in the case against Western perfidy.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
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
  • Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.
    Sue Brightman, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 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 21 Apr. 2026.

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