bad faith
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noun
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intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith )
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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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Unless nature or government succeeds in restricting next year's crops the farm surpluses bid fair to stay.
From Time Magazine Archive
If preliminary forecasts were correct, it bid fair to be a memorable document.
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These astounding confessions bid fair to prove the sensation of the literary year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The world is short of bromine, and the chief sources—salt deposits in Prussian Saxony, brines in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Chile —do not bid fair to replenish the supply.
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His father, Elmo, a huge St. Bernard, had been the Judge’s inseparable companion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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