Pronounced: loo-SIH-fruhn (alt: loo-SIH-fuh-run), noun
Notes: This word has nothing to do with the devil
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase mala fide means “in bad faith”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I was aware of the phrase bona fides (in good faith), but I didn’t know that this phrase existed. It came from the Latin phrase mala fide, made of maus (bad) and fides (faith).
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