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two-facedness - 4 thesaurus results
Main Entry: two-facedness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocrisy
Synonyms: affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing*, duplicity, falsity, fraud*, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, bad faith*, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, unctuousness
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: duplicity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception
Synonyms: artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-dealing, dualism, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, skullduggery, treachery, Judas kiss, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, duality, perfidiousness, perfidy, stab in back, treacherousness, two-facedness, twoness
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness
Antonyms: honesty, forthrightness, trustworthiness
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: Jekyll and Hyde
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dual personality
Synonyms: ambiguity, duplicity, split personality, Proteus, double life, two-facedness
Main Entry: deceit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: practice of misleading
Synonyms: artifice, cheating, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, dirty pool*, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, pretense, smoke and mirrors*, treachery, trickery, two-timing, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, chicane, cozening, craftiness, defrauding, dirty dealing, dissemblance, dissimulation, entrapping, fraudulence, overreaching, slyness, trapping, two-facedness, underhandedness
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness
* = informal/non-formal usage
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