| 单词 | in bad faith |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin bad faith 1. Intent to deceive; insincerity, dishonesty; faithlessness, disloyalty; treachery. Now frequently in in bad faith. Cf. good faith n., Punic faith n. at Punic n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [noun] lewnessc1175 treachery?c1225 culvertshipa1250 falsedom1297 felony1297 traitorhead1303 traitory1303 falsenessc1330 falsityc1330 trainc1390 traitorhoodc1470 covin1487 traitorousness1571 Punic faith1590 traitorism1591 treacherousness1610 traitorship1645 bad faith1653 treasonableness1679 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] untruthc893 untruenessOE falsedom1297 falsehood1297 falsenessc1330 falsityc1330 untrothc1374 mistruthc1480 disloyalty1481 unfaithfulness1526 untrustiness1526 deloyalty1571 disloyalness1586 truth breach1597 faithlessness1598 bad faith1653 infaithfulness1685 trustlessness1828 unreliableness1844 disfaith1881 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlvi. 179 Now because it seemed strange unto them, that we had voluntarily submitted our selves in that sort to the bad faith of the Chineses [Pg. à pouca verdade dos Chins], they asked of us from what Country we came. 1756 tr. F. X. de Oliveira Pathetic Disc. Calamities Portugal 27 It is to be fear'd that your sinful, your delusive Errors, your Frauds, and your bad Faith, will still continue. 1780 J. Torris Let. 13 May in B. Franklin Papers (1996) XXXII. 385 Your Excellency..will see the flat Contradictions & bad faith in the reports of the Parjured Capt. Roodenberg. 1789 H. More Lett. (1925) 126 Her reputation has been committed by the bad faith of a friend. 1819 Niles' Weekly Reg. 21 Aug. 122 That he has executed it [sc. a charter] in bad faith, there is no doubt. 1832 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 576 The Hansards were every now and then accused of acting with bad faith. 1874 Punch 4 June 3/1 Lord Strathnairn charged the late Secretary for War with bad faith, in not enlisting men for short and long service together. 1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples II. v. v. 174 An act of bad faith which after many stormy years was to cost him his life. 1991 Blitz Sept. 114/2 A classic case of the media acting in bad faith and then going on a fashionably reflexive mea culpa trip. 2010 Vanity Fair Nov. 126/2 The gamesmanship and bad faith of trying to get others to feel sorry for us with our weepy stories and bared scars. < as lemmas |
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