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Recent Examples of bad faith
The firm is headquartered in a 50,000-square-foot building at Interstate 25 and 104th Avenue in Northglenn and also has practices in consumer protection and bad faith insurance.
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Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2026
The union launched the strike after negotiations stalled in the fall, and relations between its negotiators and Kaiser’s had deteriorated by the holidays, with allegations of blackmail and bad faith.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Long before news broke of lawsuits alleging a widespread State Farm bad faith scheme to wrongly deny Oklahoma hail claims, Coppermark’s petition accused insurance companies and the insurance department of working in cahoots.
—J.c. Hallman, Oklahoman, 10 Feb. 2026
Last week, Nike countersued Total90 LLC—which owns the federal trademark for Total90—and accuses it of bad faith conduct and fraudulently obtained trademark registrations.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2026
The union launched the strike after negotiations stalled in the fall, and relations between its negotiators and Kaiser’s had deteriorated by the holidays, with allegations of blackmail and bad faith.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Long before news broke of lawsuits alleging a widespread State Farm bad faith scheme to wrongly deny Oklahoma hail claims, Coppermark’s petition accused insurance companies and the insurance department of working in cahoots.
—J.c. Hallman, Oklahoman, 10 Feb. 2026
Last week, Nike countersued Total90 LLC—which owns the federal trademark for Total90—and accuses it of bad faith conduct and fraudulently obtained trademark registrations.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
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Paul frequently accuses Mortenson of cheating and lying, which he’s openly admitted to — after he gets caught.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2026
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Aristotle said that lying is an unjust act.—
Katherine Moses,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Another 24% of participants cited poor leadership, dishonesty and personal dislikes as their reason for disapproving.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Her cross-examination — with its rapid-fire accusations, caustic tone and presumption of dishonesty — had felt eerily familiar after years of verbal abuse.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Their use of the well-being of Iranians as a justification for spending billions to topple the Islamic regime is just brazen hypocrisy.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
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The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Taking someone’s money by deceit is generally not allowed, and the misrepresentations contained in the contract could serve as proof of the alleged fraud.—
Robert L. Boone,
Sportico.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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And in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Hurt played one of the New York socialites who falls into the web of deceit created by a charismatic young man (Will Smith) pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Mar. 2026
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The story of a secret agent confronted with duplicity and bureaucracy from his own side while investigating a Soviet kidnap ring, it was published in 1962 and went on to sell millions of copies.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.—
Tina Nguyen,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, North Korea claimed to have successfully testlaunched a multiwarhead missile, but South Korea quickly dismissed it as deception to cover up a failed launch.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Mar. 2026
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These include debt bondage, restriction of movement, withholding of wages, excessive overtime, physical violence, surveillance, deception, isolation, abuse of vulnerability and abusive conditions.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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Other contributing factors often include mendacity, obfuscation, obsession, moral bankruptcy, naïveté, misplaced loyalty or trust, and lapse of good judgment.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The method of the madness is plain: Goncharov claims to have been plagiarized, with ever greater cunning and mendacity, by Ivan Turgenev, who once had been his friend.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Allen’s combo of flip insincerity and kindly concern is a terrific treat, recalling Bill Murray at his doofy best.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
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In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Bad faith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20faith. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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