Synonyms of bad faith

bad faith

noun

as in lying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lying
• dupery
• dishonesty
• untruthfulness
• hypocrisy
• deceit
• duplicity
• deception
• mendaciousness
• mendacity
• fraudulentness
• insincerity
• deceitfulness
• treacherousness
• crookedness
• double-dealing
• fakery
• smoothness
• dissembling
• insidiousness
• underhandedness
• dissimulation
• furtiveness
• falseness
• trickery
• slyness
• perfidy
• slipperiness
• unscrupulousness
• cozenage
• two-facedness
• slickness
• oiliness
• indirection
• cunning
• falsity
• cunningness
• craftiness
• guile
• wiliness
• beguilement
• prevarication
• artifice
• inaccuracy
• exaggeration
• equivocation

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• good faith
• sincerity
• frankness
• candor
• artlessness
• forthrightness
• ingenuousness
• guilelessness
• straightforwardness
• integrity
• candidness
• truthfulness
• honesty
• plainspokenness
• veracity
• verity
• probity
• righteousness
• honor
• uprightness
• rectitude
• scrupulousness
• scrupulosity
• incorruptibility
• honorableness
• right-mindedness

Examples of bad faith in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This attempt at lowering royalty payments to an already beleaguered songwriter community is in the worst bad faith and a perversion of the Copyright Royalty Board settlement that the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), the National Music Publishers Assn. —Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 13 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

The Republicans accused the Democrats of bad faith, and the Democrats responded in kind. —Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024

In the hands of bad faith actors, it can be used for nefarious purposes. —Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2024