Marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results.
Not unfriendly or threatening.
1 Words intended to be well - meaning may in fact have the opposite effect.
2 For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well - meaning clumsy young normal.
3 Nor did the well - meaning parson entirely escape comment in the higher quarters.
4 I do not for a moment deny that their intentions are well - meaning .
5 But that is the way in which well - meaning policemen destroy valuable evidence.
6 Stuart was a butt for even the well - meaning boys of the town.
7 He was mild in temperament, affable in demeanor, goodnatured, affectionate and well - meaning .
8 Additionally, the planets suggest that incoming information could be well - meaning but inaccurate!
9 I sized up the doctors here as a couple of well - meaning fools.
10 The mother is a well - meaning , hard-working, moderately intelligent woman of about 45.
11 But Charles, in spite of his hypocritical character, was a well - meaning boy.
12 For the moment he had absolutely no use for this well - meaning blunderer.
13 She was rather more angry than pleased at the well - meaning sheriffs scepticism.
14 It can draw the fussing and ire of well - meaning parents and grandparents.
15 Not all former Topanga characters were as benign and well - meaning as Geer.
16 The chaplain, a fussy but well - meaning person, has been memorializing about it.
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