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 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

Other Word Forms

• bad-faith adjective

Example Sentences

But Johnson said Democrats were "not serious" and negotiating in bad faith.

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But Johnson said Democrats are "not serious" and negotiating in bad faith - "they're doing this to get political cover".

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Jeffries added that Republican leaders have stopped communicating with Democrats and accused them of negotiating in bad faith.

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“Our members reserve the right to not be in business with representatives who are operating in an unfair conflict of interest, who are operating in bad faith,” Astin said.

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“It’s politics practiced in bad faith, where we just ... tell people things that test well because they sound nice, and then we just blame the other side for being evil, incompetent, corrupt. ... It’s just a race to the bottom.”

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Related Words

• bigotry 
• deceit 
• deception 
• dishonesty 
• duplicity 
• fraud 
• insincerity 
• mockery