ADJECTIVE
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marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
a double-dealing double agent
a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer
she was a deceitful scheming little thing -
(of fabrics) having faces on both sides
damask is a double-faced fabric
How To Use double-faced In A Sentence
- For all I knew, God partook of our sins and laughed in secret from the dark caverns of the rubber plantations, exulting shamelessly in his double-facedness.
- damask is a double-faced fabric
- ‘My guess is that it was double-faced cellophane tape,’ said Tom Julian, a trend analyst with Fallon McElligott in New York.
- All of a sudden, as he still trips dexterously enough among the dangers of a double-faced career, thinking no great evil, humming to himself the trillo, Fate takes the further conduct of that matter from his hands, and brings him face to face with the consequences of his acts. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
- He summarizes an official document he saw that proposed China adopt a "double-faced" strategy for dealing with the Vatican: "Little by little" the government would "attract" the bishops to their side, Cardinal Zen says. A Cardinal's Warning on China
- The double-faced clocks, which inexorably mark the time limits for tournament chess players, ticked off the carefully allotted seconds at Havana's Capablanca Chess Club.
- No one can get away with such a double-faced game.
- At 249, a rustcoloured double-faced wool coat is the most expensive of the bunch. Times, Sunday Times
- But, sitting in a customer-less furniture store in downtown Williamsburg, Ky., appliance repairman Herschel Roaden, 82, said he thought Rogers was being "double-faced. As GOP slashes budget, lawmakers who built careers on earmarks must re-brand
- Secure loose rugs with double-faced tape, tacks or a slip-resistant backing.