Example sentences for: two-faced

How can you use “two-faced” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After an epic exchange of personal pirouettes she delivered the knockout punch with the following: I told her to her face, [an aberrant piece of straighttalking, this] Don't you turn round to me and tell me I turned round and accused you of being two-faced.

  • Among the items that he enjoyed catching were the ambiguous headlines, which he dubbed “two-faced heads.”

  • In Fowler's Modern English Usage one of the more intriguing entries is Legerdemain in Two Senses . Under that heading he points out the sneaky way in which one word is often two-faced in the sense that its first meaning gets switched when it is used the second time in a sentence.

  • The next day Wei was reported as having called British foreign secretary Robin Cook "two-faced" and a "coward" for failing to join him in a photo call and allegedly keeping him away from the press.

  • To postulate that all language is two-faced runs counter to everyday reality, where people seem perfectly capable of talking to others without any slippage in meaning.


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