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

Each side accused the other of negotiating in bad faith and of misleading consumers about the issues dividing them.

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Monday’s ruling, by a three-judge panel on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, reaffirmed that the Post-Gazette had bargained in bad faith and ordered the paper to restore the terms of the 2017 contract.

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O’Connor said in his order, made public Thursday, that prosecutors hadn’t acted in bad faith, but he disagreed with them that dismissing charges “is in the public interest.”

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"I have asked for forgiveness, and today I repeat it again. But none of them were due to political calculation or bad faith."

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“This action seeks to halt Novo Nordisk’s plot to catch and kill Metsera before Pfizer can possibly nurture its products into healthy competition—a plot that is being facilitated by a brazen breach of the Pfizer-Metsera Merger Agreement and disloyal, bad faith actions by Metsera’s directors,” Pfizer said in its lawsuit.

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Related Words

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