malafide

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English

Adjective

malafide (not comparable)

  1. (India, law) In bad faith.
    • 2023, Srishti Jaswal, Monitor reporter’s trial opens: Why India treats journalists as terrorists, in: The Christian Science Monitor, April 19 2023
      Soutik Banerjee, an advocate assisting Mr. Shah’s legal team, describes the ruling as a positive development, writing in a statement that it “exemplifies that there has been arbitrary and malafide use of extraordinary laws against Fahad. … Only time will tell if UAPA charges will also apply.”

Noun

malafide (plural malafides)

  1. (India, law) Something done in bad faith.