- in bad faith
- if you do something in bad faith, you know that it is not honest or legal.
The court ruled that the sellers had acted in bad faith.
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in bad faith
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bad faith — The opposite of good faith, generally implying or involving actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or a neglect or refusal to fulfill some duty or some contractual obligation, not prompted by an honest mistake as … Black's law dictionary
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