two-facedness

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Noun
  • The arrival of sophisticated AI might, at first glance, seem like a threat to genuine learning, potentially reducing the need for deep thought or even enabling widespread academic dishonesty.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Eleanor’s dishonesty puts her in more precarious situations, including having to speak to journalism students about ethical storytelling and a local news channel’s interest in airing a segment about her.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • That kind of hypocrisy on self-enrichment could become a weak point for the GOP and a clear opening for Democrats to attack.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2025
  • But that stumble constitutes Hwang’s only confrontation with the hypocrisy that ruins Yellow Face and its inherent PBS conceit.
    Armond White, National Review, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Recently recovered emails, messages, photos, and videos reveal the depths of the deception.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 June 2025
  • Even commercial amusements that played with illusion, such as trompe l’oeil paintings and chess-playing automatons, helped train Americans of all classes to identify the signs of deception.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • From the master-of-disguise frogfish to a butt-biting jackal and a multi headed caterpillar playing the decoy, these are the masters of deception and deceit.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • When a simple mistake turns into a fatal error for one of his patients, Sam tries to bury the truth under a facade of perfection, knowing that a lifetime of deceit is about to be exposed.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 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
  • Their perfidy is memorialized in the English language, though.
    Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The prior month, Vice President JD Vance had lodged his own complaints about Europe’s alleged perfidy, threatening that the United States might withdraw its security guarantees from Europe if the EU continued to aggressively regulate U.S. tech companies.
    ANU BRADFORD, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Two-facedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-facedness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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