How to Use bad faith in a Sentence

bad faith

noun
  • This shift does not require bad faith from the companies.
    — Michael Gregory, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Not because anyone acted in bad faith.
    — Darshak Sanghavi, STAT, 3 June 2026
  • Lapid and Gantz saw the stalling tactic as yet more evidence of bad faith.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • The collapse of the talks wasn’t the fault of bad faith or clumsy diplomacy.
    — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Commission staff push back against other claims as bad faith attacks.
    — Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Rome’s friends believed that Rome had their back and that Rome would punish bad faith on their part.
    — Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But not all faulty information online is being spread in bad faith.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • In the hands of bad faith actors, it can be used for nefarious purposes.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2024
  • In the meantime, the two sides have traded scathing accusations of bad faith and even blackmail.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Nevertheless, the quote inevitably garnered some bad faith (or just plain dumb) backlash.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Good faith is the absence of bad faith, and others (judges or jurors) will decide your good faith from your actions and statements.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Good faith is the absence of bad faith, and others (judges or jurors) will decide your good faith from your actions and statements.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The fact Detroit is a majority-Black city is part of that bad faith attack.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Prosecutors appeared to view this as evidence of bad faith.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The last round of talks collapsed in December amid charges of bad faith between Egypt and Ethiopia.
    — Johnnie Carson, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • Keathley says there needed to be evidence of bad faith, but the nondisclosure was an honest mistake.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The court also found no evidence of fraud or bad faith by either defendant, according to court records.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Whether or not this kind of bad faith use of eminent domain is constitutional is a somewhat open question.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • 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
  • Yet in the early years of the insurgency there were talks to try and reach a settlement, until both sides accused each other of bad faith.
    — Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The squabble over the bill was messy, marked by hundreds of attendees, hourslong hearings, and accusations of bad faith from both sides.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The change made it so that the top reply on almost any viral post is a scammer, a spammer, or someone engaging in bad faith or harassment for clout.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The Republicans accused the Democrats of bad faith, and the Democrats responded in kind.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • But this summer that deal unraveled, with both sides lobbing accusations of bad faith and questionable financing.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025

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