bad faith
noun
lack of honesty and trust: Bad faith on the part of both negotiators doomed the talks from the outset.
Compare
good faith.
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Example sentences from the Web for bad faith
But his in-your-face rebuke to the bad-faith attacks of the Republicans was thrilling.
British Dictionary definitions for bad faith
bad faith
noun
intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
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