Yes, your first example is correct (by definition). Bad faith is misrepresenting your motivations or the relevant facts in some way, including by omission. > B

Yes, your first example is correct (by definition). Bad faith is misrepresenting your motivations or the relevant facts in some way, including by omission. > But there are people who would disagree, because <reasons> That is an example of mental gymnastics to avoid classifying the thing they want to do as bad in their own view. They want to do something but they don't want to think of themselves as behaving in bad faith because they're a good person doing the right thing.