How to Use bad faith in a Sentence

bad faith

noun
  • Lapid and Gantz saw the stalling tactic as yet more evidence of bad faith.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • There are different types of NDAs, and they can be used in good and bad faith, experts say.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • The last round of talks collapsed in December amid charges of bad faith between Egypt and Ethiopia.
    — Johnnie Carson, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • That shortfall is seen as a symbol of Western bad faith: all talk, no walk.
    — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • From the start, this case was rooted in bad faith and lacking any basis in facts or science.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 13 June 2024
  • The Republicans accused the Democrats of bad faith, and the Democrats responded in kind.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The fact Detroit is a majority-Black city is part of that bad faith attack.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In the hands of bad faith actors, it can be used for nefarious purposes.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2024
  • Very quickly, the initial claims of trust and friendship would be followed by accusations of bad faith.
    — Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Apple even ended support for progressive web apps on iPhones, in what is being viewed as a bad faith move.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Commission staff push back against other claims as bad faith attacks.
    — Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Nevertheless, the quote inevitably garnered some bad faith (or just plain dumb) backlash.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • And, once again, The Other Two exposes bad faith on all sides of our pop-cultural conversation.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • As tensions spike in the U.S. amid the conflict in the Middle East, experts say extremist groups and bad faith actors are attempting to take advantage of the tensions.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The change made it so that the top reply on almost any viral post is a scammer, a spammer, or someone engaging in bad faith or harassment for clout.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • In a moment of such emotion, without any bad intention or bad faith, what happened happened, in a very spontaneous way.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our one true national pastime has become litigating the rules, at high volume, in good or neutral or very bad faith.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • Taken in bad faith, some of these things might sound like apologia or good fortune, but that is the nature of tennis and of seizing the moment: winning against what is immediately in front of you.
    — James Hansen, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • So much of the internet is miserable these days: harassment, bad faith, cruelty.
    — Camille Butera, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Johnson & Johnson should not be allowed to use a small unit’s bankruptcy case to end tens of thousands of cancer lawsuits because the strategy is rooted in bad faith, the US Trustee said in a court filing.
    — Steven Church, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • But McCarthy has repeatedly dealt in bad faith and has spent the final days of his speakership pushing a ridiculous impeachment inquiry.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Here, the neighborhood groups fighting the 900-condo designs cast the number and price point of the project’s affordable housing element (the minimum effort required by the city) as an example of bad faith.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Those who do operate in a free market, such as record labels, have negotiated protections against these bad faith tactics.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 21 May 2024
  • The Justice Department answers to the president, and if Trump ordered it to pursue voter-fraud investigations, which he was empowered to do, the Court will not consider whether this was done in bad faith.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 July 2024
  • Everyone in the uniformly excellent cast is complicated in that way: just wobbly enough, even in their bonhomie, to make credible the quick transformations to bad faith.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Having said that, a leadership position may actually prove to be a better example to use when trying to understand bad faith.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Woods also accused the prosecutor’s office of bad faith negotiating in October after a second and potential third plea deal were squashed at the last minute.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025

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