(in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
bad faith (sense 2)
Examples of 'mauvaise foi' in a sentence
mauvaise foi
The man has, he decides, renounced his human freedom and turned himself into a machine, so he exemplifies 'bad faith' (mauvaise foi), an existentialist sin.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These paintings betray a mauvaise foi from which he never completely recovered as an artist before his premature death in 1925, aged forty-two.