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

"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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While he did not rule on whether the ministerial code had been broken, Sir Laurie said he found "no evidence of bad faith".

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Attacking the service in bad faith scores more political points.

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Devon and Cornwall Police said no further action would be taken after the Stevens brothers and Mr Sheridan successfully took a civil case to the High Court on Tuesday where Justice Martin Spencer decided any mistakes made were not "in bad faith".

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Related Words

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