Nouns (0)
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (7)
Janus-faced
adj. having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
two-faced
adj. having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"
two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued
adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
Fuzzynyms (45)
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal
adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
false
adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
sneaky, underhand, underhanded
adj. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
perfidious, treacherous
adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent
adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
unfaithful, disloyal, faithless
adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"
devious, scheming, calculating
adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
slick, cunning, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
renegade, recreant, treacherous, traitorous
adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"
double-dealing, two-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous
adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
Synonyms (24)
baby-faced
adj. having a youthful-looking face
long-faced
adj. having a face longer than the usual
moon-faced, round-faced
adj. having a round face
sweet-faced
adj. having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition; "a sweet-faced child"
visaged
adj. having a face or visage as specified; "gloomy-visaged funeral directors"
obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish
adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous
adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative
adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"
hollow, false
adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
gilded, spurious, meretricious, specious
adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
Antonyms (7)
sincere
adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"
honest, honorable, honourable
adj. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
honest
adj. without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"
direct, straightforward
adj. not devious
Janus-faced
© Copyright 2009 Lexipedia. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by iSEEK.