two-facedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-facedness
Noun
  • The Hill: Republicans’ dishonesty on deficit reduction.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a dishonesty to them, these religious symbols used as a cheap shorthand for a fervor more easily translated on the spot.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Beneath the sarcasm and satire, there appears to be a genuine desire to challenge assumptions, expose hypocrisy, and shine a light on uncomfortable truths and double standards.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The play becomes a delta itself, where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional, modern—mingle and, when the priest’s hypocrisy is exposed, surge toward confrontation.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In another case, Balmer pleaded guilty in 2016 to forgery and theft by deception charges, court documents show.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Imposter syndrome is an internal struggle with feeling like a fraud despite being qualified, whereas career catfishing is an active deception.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The deceit and deception is positively intoxicating to this longtime reality competition fan.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The campaign registers domains that are close enough to legitimate websites to trick users into clicking, or at least to stop them flagging the deceit.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 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
  • Despite high trade deficits, the U.S. economy is strong Trump and his advisers point to America’s lopsided trade numbers—year after year of huge deficits—as proof of foreigners’ perfidy.
    Time, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Two-facedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-facedness. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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