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mauvaise foi

British  
/ movɛz fwa /

noun

  1. (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith See bad faith

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For Sartre, the problem is mauvaise foi, or bad faith.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2016

Gambetta made some bitter attacks on the Royalists, accusing them of mauvaise foi and want of patriotism.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

L'injure, le sarcasme, un langage qui rappelle parfois en v�rit� le genre de Rabelais, une effronterie d'affirmation dans les moments de faiblesse qui frise et atteint meme la mauvaise foi, voila ses armes.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

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