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Recent Examples of bad faith
Failure to satisfy estate tax for example, can result in personal liability for unpaid tax, even if the executor lacked bad faith.
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Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Tehran has accused the U.S. of bad faith, citing broken promises under the original deal.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Neither bad faith nor bad habits on the part of either side relieves us of the duty to stand for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the proper separation of powers.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
These skewed contracts can open the door for bad faith.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
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Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Tehran has accused the U.S. of bad faith, citing broken promises under the original deal.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Neither bad faith nor bad habits on the part of either side relieves us of the duty to stand for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the proper separation of powers.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
These skewed contracts can open the door for bad faith.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
Noun
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Some of her most prominent studies have been centered on dishonesty.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
27 May 2025
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For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.—
Alondra Nelson,
Time,
13 May 2025
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But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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This becomes fuel for a spiraling breakdown, for Taylor and for all the other women, full of DMs and text-thread images shown on-camera as evidence of various hypocrisies.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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None of these spring explorations of sisterly deceit and self-deception has been able to surpass Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters as the recent genre peak.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Starring Tom Cruise, the movies are loaded with action, deceit and globe-spanning adventures – everything a good spy film should be.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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And some saw duplicity in Holden’s efforts since the councilman had fought so vigorously to restrict liquor licenses in South L.A. after the 1992 riots.—
Jaimie Ding,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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The publication, known for its close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, framed the talks as yet another round of predictable Western duplicity.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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But these seductions or deceptions are canceled when the work confronts us with the photographic records of the performative procedure itself—and not only by making the photograph an integral component, the dialectical complement to the material sculptural production.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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He’s got some deception on the puck and does a good job holding onto it to wait for secondary options to open up, but slows the game down too much.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Bad faith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20faith. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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