two-faced

two-faced
ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ (disapproval)
If you describe someone as two-faced, you are critical of them because they say they do or believe one thing when their behaviour or words show that they do not do it or do not believe it.

He had been devious and two-faced...

The scientists saw the public as being particularly two-faced about animal welfare in view of the way domestic animals are treated.


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