"double-faced" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} double-faced (not comparable)
  1. Having two functional faces. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: two-faced
    Sense id: en-double-faced-en-adj-HaNcVf1I Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  2. Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous. Tags: not-comparable Translations (hypocritical; treacherous): двуличен (dvuličen) (Bulgarian), лицемерен (licemeren) (Bulgarian), kaksinaamainen (Finnish), petollinen (Finnish), kavala (Finnish), ikiyüzlü (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-double-faced-en-adj-ytWIrK~L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 10 90 Synonyms: double-hearted, Janus-faced, two-faced, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious [obsolete], deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful, fraudulent, booky [Multicultural-London-English], dastardly, disleal [obsolete], disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart [obsolete], false-hearted, guiled [archaic], guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal [obsolete], infidelitous, insidious [nonstandard], Judaslike, Judasly [uncommon], nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious [obsolete], proditory [obsolete], Punic [ethnic, figuratively, slur], ratlike, recreant [literary, poetic], renegade, reptilian [figuratively], reptitious [figuratively, obsolete], swike [dialectal, obsolete], traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless [archaic, poetic], unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous Disambiguation of 'hypocritical; treacherous': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: speak with a forked tongue
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      "roman": "dvuličen",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "двуличен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "licemeren",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "лицемерен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "kaksinaamainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "petollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "kavala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "hypocritical; treacherous",
      "word": "ikiyüzlü"
    }
  ],
  "word": "double-faced"
}

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