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Significats de well-meant en anglès

Marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results.

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Ús de well-meant en anglès
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The very life of the oasis was imperilled by our well-meant artifices.
Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Their well-meant efforts did not have the effect of terrorizing the author.
Flames
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This well-meant action had an effect the opposite of that hoped for.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
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The appeal, energetic and well-meant as it was, had no result whatever.
The Life of John Clare
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It was well-meant, but she was not at all pleased with it.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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To have to listen to all this well-meant twaddle was misery indeed.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
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But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
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So I did not take Harry Colemain's well-meant advice, and leave Aiken.
We Three
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It failed entirely as a well-meant effort in the way of implied reproof.
The Legacy of Cain
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His well-meant efforts may wreck you; his mistakes are sure to.
Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile / Being a Desultory Narrativ...
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The girl smiled like a child who detects some well-meant deceit, and said:
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 02
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The effect of much well-meant Christian effort is simply to irritate.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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An instinctive movement of repugnance has ruined many a well-meant effort.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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I like your ways, and will make you a well-meant offer.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 184...
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His inquiries about Gula called down upon him many well-meant jests.
Arachne — Volume 05
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The last products of his muse show that this well-meant advice was bad.
Musicians of To-Day