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BAD FAITH

Specialty Definition: BAD FAITH

DomainDefinition

Economics

The intent to mislead or deceive. It does not include misleading by an honest, inadvertent or uncalled-for misstatement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: BAD FAITH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Falsehood

Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.

Improbity

Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal.

Faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous.

Nonobservance

Lawlessness; disobedience; bad faith.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BAD FAITH

English words defined with "BAD FAITH": double-dealing, duplicityMachiavelian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BAD FAITH": abusive registration of a domain namecybersquattingMala Fides. (references)

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Modern Usage: BAD FAITH

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bad Faith (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BAD FAITH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bad Faith Litigation & Insurer Vs. Insurer Disputes: A Course Handbook (reference)

  • Litigation and Prevention of Insurer Bad Faith (reference)

  • Bad Faith and Punitive Damages: Annotations to First Party Insurance Cases, Statutes and Regulations, Second Supplement (reference)

  • Punitive Damages in Bad Faith Cases (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BAD FAITH

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Guyana

For example, efforts to negotiate a new contract between the Government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) have been deadlocked amid allegations of bad faith that have distinct political and racial overtones. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: BAD FAITH

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929Any other course is bad faith and a violation of the party pledges.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: BAD FAITH

Expressions using "BAD FAITH": act in bad faith in bad faith. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BAD FAITH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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per Day

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21

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3

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3

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5

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3

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4

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4

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2

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3

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2

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3

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2

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3

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2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BAD FAITH

Language Translations for "BAD FAITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بشكل خائن (in bad faith). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предателство (betrayal, disloyalty, sellout, treachery), подлост (abjection, baseness, meanness, treachery, turpitude, villainy). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ve zlém úmyslu (in bad faith). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ansøger i ond tro (applicant acting in bad faith). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aanvrager te kwader trouw (applicant acting in bad faith). (various references)

   

French

  

utiliser de mauvaise foi (use in bad faith), demandeur de mauvaise foi (applicant acting in bad faith), être de mauvaise foi (act in bad faith). (various references)

   

German

  

bosgläubiger Anmelder (applicant acting in bad faith), bösgläubig handeln (act in bad faith), bösgläubig benutzen (use in bad faith), in böser Absicht (in bad faith). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καταθέτης κακής πίστεως (applicant acting in bad faith). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rosszhiszemûség. (various references)

   

Italian

  

malafede. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

故意 (intention, purpose), 悪意 (evil intention, ill will, malice, spite), 不 意 (dishonesty, insincerity, untruthfulness), 不 実 (dishonesty, insincerity, untruthfulness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふせいい (dishonesty, insincerity, untruthfulness), ふせいじつ (dishonesty, insincerity, untruthfulness), "い (ancient ways, carp, dense, entreaty, intention, love, purpose, request, strong, tender passion, the feelings of the ancients, thick), あくい (evil intention, ill will, malice, shabby clothes, spite). (various references)

   

Manx

  

drogh aigney (grudge, ill will, malice, malignity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adbay aithfay

   

Portuguese

  

má fé, dolo (cantrip, deceit, fraud, hoax, indirection, inveracity, mystification). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rea-credinţã (dishonesty), necinste (disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, foulness, improbity, insult, knavery, knavishness, shame). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вероломно (in bad faith). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

solicitante actuando de mala fe (applicant acting in bad faith). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trolöst (in bad faith). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

samimiyetsizlikle (in bad faith), kötü niyetle (in bad faith, malafide, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, with malice aforethought). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

віроломно (in bad faith, treacherously). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BAD FAITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-f-h-i-t"

-3 letters: abaft, baith, faith, habit, tabid, tafia.

-4 letters: adit, baht, bait, bath, daft, data, dita, fiat, haaf, haft.

-5 letters: aah, aba, aft, aha, aid, ait, baa, bad, bah, bat, bid, bit, dab, dah, dib, dit, fad, fat, fib, fid, fit, had, hat, hid, hit, tab, tad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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