mala fide \mal-uh-FYE-dee\ adverb or adjective : with or in bad faith
Example sentence: The judge concluded that the company had acted mala fide in concealing the information.
Did you know? You may be familiar with the more commonly used "bona fide" (\BOH-nuh-fyde\), which can mean "made in good faith" (as in "a bona fide agreement") or "genuine or real" ("a bona fide miracle"). Not surprisingly, in Latin "bona fide" means "in good faith" and "mala fide" means "in bad faith." These days "mala fide," which dates from the mid-16th century, tends to turn up primarily in legal contexts.
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