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