mala fides

[ mah-lah fee-des; English mey-luh fahy-deez ]

noun

, Latin.

1. bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

My meaning is, that apparently, at no stage of the business has there been mala fides in any quarter.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet to have persevered with such a doubt would have put him at once into a state of mala fides.

From Project Gutenberg