mala fide

[ mah-lah fee-de; English mey-luh-fahy-dee ]

/ ˈmɑ lɑ ˈfi dɛ; English ˈmeɪ lə ˈfaɪ di /

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adverb Latin.

in bad faith; not genuine.

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Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.
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The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.”
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A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a bona fide superhero.
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Stephen Hawking is not only a bona fide genius, but also one of the most resilient men on the planet.
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By the time the CFDA awards rolled round in early 1994, Moss was a bona fide star.
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Nor can other creditors through filing objections to a claim prevent a bona fide claimant from voting.
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The fact that you are here tells me that the wireless you got on the ship was not only bona fide but important.
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Such relief was to be granted with due consideration and the bona fide intention of recovering.
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If all that George Sand here says is bona fide, the letter proves that the rupture had not yet taken place.
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It is not entered as second-class matter and it has probably no bona-fide circulation.
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British Dictionary definitions for mala fide

mala fide

/ (ˈmælə ˈfaɪdɪ) /

adjective

undertaken in bad faith

Word Origin for mala fide

from Latin

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