bad faith

American  

noun

1. lack of honesty and trust.

   Bad faith on the part of both negotiators doomed the talks from the outset.

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bad faith British  

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

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Other Word Forms

• bad-faith adjective

Example Sentences

Theodore Boutrous, a Times lawyer, accused the administration at a hearing before Friedman in a Washington court on Monday of "gaslighting" and "bad faith."

From Barron's

But the East Coast edition became a solo affair after WGA West canceled its ceremony amid an ongoing strike by its own staff union, who claimed guild management had “surveilled workers for union activity, terminated union supporters, and engaged in bad faith surface bargaining.”

From Los Angeles Times

Percival also warned that alerting lawmakers would be seen as “in bad faith and bordering on material misrepresentation to Congress.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Further, it claimed that guild management had “surveilled workers for union activity, terminated union supporters, and engaged in bad faith surface bargaining.”

From Los Angeles Times

Among its accusations, the labor organization also alleged that guild management has “surveilled workers for union activity, terminated union supporters, and engaged in bad faith surface bargaining.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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