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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | The intent to mislead or deceive. It does not include misleading by an honest, inadvertent or uncalled-for misstatement. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: BAD FAITH |
| English words defined with "BAD FAITH": double-dealing, duplicity ♦ Machiavelian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BAD FAITH": abusive registration of a domain name ♦ cybersquatting ♦ Mala Fides. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bad Faith (2000) | |
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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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Any other course is bad faith and a violation of the party pledges. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. |
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Expressions using "BAD FAITH": act in bad faith ♦ in bad faith. Additional references. | |
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| 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 má fé, dolo (cantrip, deceit, fraud, hoax, indirection, inveracity, mystification). (various references) rea-credinţã (dishonesty), necinste (disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, foulness, improbity, insult, knavery, knavishness, shame). (various references) вероломно (in bad faith). (various references) solicitante actuando de mala fe (applicant acting in bad faith). (various references) trolöst (in bad faith). (various references) samimiyetsizlikle (in bad faith), kötü niyetle (in bad faith, malafide, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, with malice aforethought). (various references) віроломно (in bad faith, treacherously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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