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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. With or in bad faith.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. With bad faith; deceitfully; treacherously: opposed to bona fide. In Scots law, a mala fide possessor is a person who possesses a subject not his own upon a title which he knows to be bad, or which he has reasonable ground for believing to be so.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. law in bad faith

Etymologies

  1. From Latin. The word mala, which is the ablative feminine of the word malus (meaning "bad") + fide, the ablative of fides meaning "faith". Literally meaning "in bad faith". (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin malā fidē : malā, feminine ablative of malus, bad + fidē, ablative of fidēs, faith. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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