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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • What this fight does tell us, however, is that unlike neighboring Korea, China’s foray into exporting its soft power will likely be fraught with distrust and even bad faith.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Outside the nostalgia, bad faith, and rainbow-barf clothing there was another crucial ingredient: drugs.
    Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Union members authorized the strike, with 99% voting in support of it weeks after filing a complaint with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board alleging bad faith bargaining.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Henning and Birch claim that the Milford officers violated their civil rights by engaging in a bad faith investigation that sent them to prison on 50- and 55-year sentences, respectively.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • That said, Microsoft didn’t detail how the information that surfaces in these summaries will be vetted or how the company intends to insulate the summaries against abuse — by bad faith review-bombing efforts, for example.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 23 May 2023
  • In response, the district and Rollins brought counterclaims against Berkley for declaratory judgment; breach of contract; fraud or, alternatively, constructive fraud; false misrepresentations; and bad faith.
    Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2023

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