bad faith
lack of honesty and trust: Bad faith on the part of both negotiators doomed the talks from the outset.
Other words from bad faith
- bad-faith, adjective
- Compare good faith.
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How to use bad faith in a sentence
But when that plane has gone down because of humans acting in bad faith, there are consequences, there is hell to pay.
The Malaysian Air Tragedy Reawakens a Primal Fear | Kelly Williams Brown | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMenendez said at the time that the administration had negotiated on the amendment in bad faith.
Hillary Clinton Celebrates the Iran Sanctions That Her State Department Tried to Stop | Josh Rogin | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd 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.
Should a New York Times Columnist Know What She's Talking About? | Michael Tomasky | May 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt 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.
The Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete | Honore de BalzacIn southern Europe, team-work along all lines is limited by selfishness and bad faith.
The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth RossThe bad faith, citizens, of which the Jewish nation is accused does not come from themselves but from their priests.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements | Nesta H. WebsterWhy, sir, if it would have been bad faith to have excluded Kentucky, was it not bad faith to exclude Missouri?
The Slavery Question | John M. LandrumThey display in their commercial manuvres great ability jointed to the most signal bad faith.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
British Dictionary definitions for bad faith
intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
Also called: mauvaise 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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