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All bad faith synonyms

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noun bad faith

  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
  • cant — a salient angle.
  • pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
  • quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
  • lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
  • pharisaism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
  • phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
  • breach of faith — a violation of good faith, confidence, or trust; betrayal: To abandon your friends now would be a breach of faith.
  • breach of promise — (formerly) failure to carry out one's promise to marry
  • tartuffery — behavior or character of a Tartuffe, especially hypocritical piety.
  • two-faced — having two faces.
  • recreancy — cowardly or craven.
  • seditious — of, relating to, or of the nature of sedition.
  • untrue — not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard.
  • foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
  • hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
  • two-timing — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
  • sharp practice — You can use sharp practice to refer to an action or a way of behaving, especially in business or professional matters, that you think is clever but dishonest.
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