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in bad faith
Idioms and Phrases
With the intention of deceiving someone or doing harm, as in I'm sure they were acting in bad faith and never planned to pay us . This expression was first recorded in 1631. The antonym, in good faith , meaning “sincerely and honestly,†as in I signed that contract in good faith , dates from about 1350.Example Sentences
The internet default is taking what you say in bad faith.
Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of violating the ceasefire and acting in bad faith.
Any violation of those obligations made in bad faith "may lead to the replacement of judicial control with a higher measure of deprivation of liberty", it said in a statement in Romanian.
We can know this because both of these Republicans have previously acted in bad faith, but also because the answers to their "questions" are already out there.
I don't know if that's because of deep belief, but I don't see any reason to read him in bad faith on that.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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