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Recent Examples of bad faith
This bad faith is on display in the stunning bait-and-switch that City Hall is preparing to execute on trash collection fees, which would sharply increase revenue.
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
As if extolling radical agnosticism, the film concludes by discussing the role of women in the church and an intersex cardinal’s laparoscopic hysterectomy before finally tossing its bad faith to a hermaphrodite pope.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s no need for a Yale University law degree to notice that the vice president is making a bad faith effort for more executive power.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
This bad faith is on display in the stunning bait-and-switch that City Hall is preparing to execute on trash collection fees, which would sharply increase revenue.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
As if extolling radical agnosticism, the film concludes by discussing the role of women in the church and an intersex cardinal’s laparoscopic hysterectomy before finally tossing its bad faith to a hermaphrodite pope.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s no need for a Yale University law degree to notice that the vice president is making a bad faith effort for more executive power.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
This bad faith is on display in the stunning bait-and-switch that City Hall is preparing to execute on trash collection fees, which would sharply increase revenue.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
Noun
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The Hill: Republicans’ dishonesty on deficit reduction.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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There’s a dishonesty to them, these religious symbols used as a cheap shorthand for a fervor more easily translated on the spot.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Beneath the sarcasm and satire, there appears to be a genuine desire to challenge assumptions, expose hypocrisy, and shine a light on uncomfortable truths and double standards.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The play becomes a delta itself, where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional, modern—mingle and, when the priest’s hypocrisy is exposed, surge toward confrontation.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The deceit and deception is positively intoxicating to this longtime reality competition fan.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The campaign registers domains that are close enough to legitimate websites to trick users into clicking, or at least to stop them flagging the deceit.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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No, his duplicity and shilling were on full display before, during and after his first term.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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No, his duplicity and shilling were on full display before, during and after his first term.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In another case, Balmer pleaded guilty in 2016 to forgery and theft by deception charges, court documents show.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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Imposter syndrome is an internal struggle with feeling like a fraud despite being qualified, whereas career catfishing is an active deception.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Bad faith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20faith. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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