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

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025