Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a false aspect; hypocritical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hypocritical.
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Examples
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Then why is it that veterans and people in the military continue to vote for these lying, back-stabbing, glad-handing, false-faced sacks of excrement?
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But his talk was false-faced talk, his mirth was lying mirth, his smile a painted smile.
Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children."
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He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children."
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children."
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