mauvaise foi

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For Sartre, the problem is mauvaise foi, or bad faith.

From The Guardian

L'injure, le sarcasme, un langage qui rappelle parfois en v�rit� le genre de Rabelais, une effronterie d'affirmation dans les moments de faiblesse qui frise et atteint meme la mauvaise foi, voila ses armes.

From Project Gutenberg

It is less about divine doom than the condition of secular despair, mauvaise foi, the unrooting of the self�a vast and almost illegibly complex dirge that touches now and then on the original imagery of the Inferno but does not, in any strict sense, illustrate it.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Döllinger said of Veuillot that he meant well, but did much good and much evil, Montalembert called him a hypocrite: "L'Univers, en déclarant tous les jours qu'il ne veut pas d'autre liberté que la sienne, justifie tout ce que nos pires ennemis ont jamais dit sur la mauvaise foi et l'hypocrisie des polémistes chrétiens."

From Project Gutenberg

In writing he called Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse 'perfide,' and spoke of his 'mauvaise foi.'

From Project Gutenberg