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Recent Examples of bad faith
Dismissing reasonable concerns as bad faith whining?
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Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 July 2025
Under federal securities laws, companies that make material misstatements or omissions in a stock prospectus or other financial representations can be found liable even without evidence of ill intent or bad faith.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
The editors union also brought charges of Unfair Labor Practices against Story Syndicate before the National Labor Relations Board in March, accusing the Harry & Meghan producers of refusal to bargain and bad faith bargaining.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Such naked ambition in the executive branch is also the result of a dysfunctional Congress, along with bad faith efforts to ignore the judiciary.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 July 2025
Under federal securities laws, companies that make material misstatements or omissions in a stock prospectus or other financial representations can be found liable even without evidence of ill intent or bad faith.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
The editors union also brought charges of Unfair Labor Practices against Story Syndicate before the National Labor Relations Board in March, accusing the Harry & Meghan producers of refusal to bargain and bad faith bargaining.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Such naked ambition in the executive branch is also the result of a dysfunctional Congress, along with bad faith efforts to ignore the judiciary.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
Noun
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Mockery quickly flooded social media channels as the irony of an HR manager setting an example of dishonesty did not escape many.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Stanton was added on May 15 to the county's Brady list, a list of law enforcement officers who have been accused of dishonesty, bias or crimes.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
21 July 2025
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Mafalda is a young girl who hates soup and hypocrisy and loves democracy and the Beatles.—
Alex Dueben
July 21,
Literary Hub,
21 July 2025
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Delirium is both intimate and expansive—an unflinching look at mental illness, social hypocrisy, and the heavy burden of our unspoken traumas.—
Time,
Time,
18 July 2025
Noun
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What begins as a convenient living arrangement spirals into a dangerous game of desire and deceit.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 July 2025
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But there’s more to the Prime Video series than just murder and deceit, says the actress, whose credits also include The Sinner and 7th Heaven.—
Beatrice Verhoeven,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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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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And how could Faas have knowingly perpetrated such deception?—
Gary Knight,
Rolling Stone,
1 Aug. 2025
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This campaign of deception from Big Oil and the plastics industry underscores why California’s lawsuit against Exxon is so vital.—
Chelsea Linsley,
Mercury News,
29 July 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 6 Aug. 2025.
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