bad faith

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Recent Examples of bad faith 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 See all Example Sentences for bad faith 
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Noun
  • No hint of dishonesty has tarnished her, and she is pledged to the rule of law.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In any case, withholding specific details or not providing all necessary facts is considered a form of dishonesty.
    Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Pax Americana was ever imperfect and to many people in the world, from Vietnam to Iraq, smacked of hypocrisy.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Later questions twist the knife even further, delving into white-guy hypocrisy around Black Lives Matter.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This ongoing effort has created a web of cruelty, deceit, and corruption in which many unfortunate people are ensnared.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the lawsuit has exposed layers of contradictions and deceit in the Saudi government’s portrayal of Omar al-Bayoumi, a middle-aged Saudi graduate student in San Diego who was the central figure in the hijackers’ support network.
    Tim Golden, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Newly aware of his subordinate’s duplicity, Masa charges at Yuki from his seat among his look-alikes in the audience.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The right-wing press, though, which had sung the praises of Reuss’ performance a few days earlier, now saw confirmation of characteristic Jewish duplicity and demanded that the government charge Reuss with fraud.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But because pressured waterfowl aren’t easy to fool, hunters have been trying to perfect the art of decoy deception to swing the odds in their favor.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • On Thursday, Prime Video debuted the first trailer for its series adaptation of the 1999 teen movie, all eight episodes premiering Nov. 21 on the streamer, bringing a familiar tale of deception to a new locale with all new characters.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024

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“Bad faith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20faith. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.

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