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词汇 bad-faith
释义 bad faith
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌbæd ˈfeɪθ/ us /ˌbæd ˈfeɪθ/
dishonest or unacceptable behaviour: 欺诈;不良行为
They acted in bad faith by selling her a car that they knew had problems.他们做事没有诚信,把明知有毛病的车卖给了她。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
canard
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
flimflam
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
bad-faith
adjective[ before noun ]
mainly USuk /ˌbædˈfeɪθ/ us /ˌbædˈfeɪθ/
done in a dishonest way with the intention of tricking someone: 欺诈的;行为不端的
There are laws prohibiting bad-faith conduct by insurers.有法律条文禁止保险公司的欺诈行为。
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good-faith
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
blag
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom

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Dishonest

bad faith | Business English


bad faith
noun[ U ]
ukus
dishonest behaviour with the intention of deceiving someone:
Consumers have the right to sue insurers for breach of contract or for acting in bad faith.
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good faith

Examples of bad faith


bad faith
How could he, and he alone, be naive and immersed in badfaith and false consciousness?
They seem to assume a unitary entity in charge of making the decisions, one that consistently commits mistakes or acts in badfaith.
There will be more and more evidence of arbitrariness, dishonesty, and badfaith among judges.
Legal realism is an exaggerated recognition of judicial badfaith.
One wonders at this point who's dealing with whom in badfaith.
This is not simply a matter of spin politics and badfaith.
Coincidentally or not, the term 'badfaith' came up several times during the conference.
As discussed above, there are a number of features besides similarity of vocabulary use which serve to identify essays which have been written in badfaith.
Having followed the matter of the buildings in every detail, it is clear to me that it has been dominated by badfaith.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Possibly, people suspect it was signed in badfaith.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I do not charge him with badfaith.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This bind of politics—power politics—is bad, it is full of deceit, badfaith and treachery of every kind.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That decision was made in thoroughly badfaith.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We shall then be accused of badfaith.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That being the case, there is no question here of badfaith.
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