mauvaise foi

British

/ movɛz fwa /

noun

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

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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

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