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bad faith

noun

  1. lack of honesty and trust:

    Bad faith on the part of both negotiators doomed the talks from the outset.



bad faith

noun

  1. intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith )
  2. Also calledmauvaise foi (in the philosophy of the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre) self-deception, as when an agent regards his actions as conditioned by circumstances or conventions in order to evade his own responsibility for choosing them freely


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Example Sentences

But when that plane has gone down because of humans acting in bad faith, there are consequences, there is hell to pay.

Menendez said at the time that the administration had negotiated on the amendment in bad faith.

And discrediting Rouhani will be easier if they can point to tangible signs of Western bad faith.

It's the same old story: congressional (and largely though not wholly Republican) bad faith.

It will also be accompanied by hysterical whining, odious self-righteousness, and mutual accusations of bad faith.

Her bad faith as a good mother seeks shelter behind her child, your son is her accomplice.

In southern Europe, team-work along all lines is limited by selfishness and bad faith.

The bad faith, citizens, of which the Jewish nation is accused does not come from themselves but from their priests.

Why, sir, if it would have been bad faith to have excluded Kentucky, was it not bad faith to exclude Missouri?

They display in their commercial manuvres great ability jointed to the most signal bad faith.

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