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Recent Examples of bad faith
With a few prominent exceptions like The Atlantic's Connor Friedersdorf, who to his credit has condemned the new witch hunts against Palestinian activists, their commitment to campus free speech has turned out to be nothing but empty clout-chasing and bad faith.
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David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Insurance bad faith litigation recoveries can be significant, in some cases dwarfing the underlying dispute.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Acting in 'bad faith' In the first hundred days since Trump took office, lawyers challenging his actions in court alleged that his administration violated court orders at least six times, according to court records reviewed by ABC News.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
The primary context that has generated tax authorities about bad faith claims involves physical injury cases.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Insurance bad faith litigation recoveries can be significant, in some cases dwarfing the underlying dispute.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Acting in 'bad faith' In the first hundred days since Trump took office, lawyers challenging his actions in court alleged that his administration violated court orders at least six times, according to court records reviewed by ABC News.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
The primary context that has generated tax authorities about bad faith claims involves physical injury cases.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
Noun
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Board meetings saw jeering, insults and accusations of dishonesty as members spoke, and frustrated parents accused leadership of lying and maliciously molding the process to a preferred outcome.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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What looks like dishonesty is often an attempt to catch up.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Douglass’s moral indictment against American hypocrisy resonated far beyond its historical moment.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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She is principled, willing to speak truth to power, and uses her years of experience in the publishing industry to highlight its absurdities and hypocrisies while also celebrating the work of so many of its workers.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Noun
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When confronted, deceit turns their romantic evening into a darkly comedic nightmare.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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The nation has now paid a steep price for its deceit and deception.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
18 June 2025
Noun
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No, the movies in the novel are real, the suffering is real, the evasions and duplicities are real.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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That yearning involves no duplicity or threats to others.—
Jay Tcath,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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This deception couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s debt.—
Thomas Kahn,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Unlike earlier studies that uncovered evasion or deception, this research exposed a more alarming phenomenon: models calculating that unethical behavior was a justifiable strategy for survival.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Hugo would likely have been repelled and fascinated by Trump’s demagoguery, his rambling mendacity, his grammatically illogical but easy-to-follow oratory.—
Graham Robb,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2025
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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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“Bad faith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20faith. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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