Marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results.
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Examples for "well-intentioned"
Examples for "well-intentioned"
1Decades of well-intentioned conservation have done little; a new approach is required.
2Incoming advice and guidance from older people will almost certainly be well-intentioned.
3But a policy to curb prices, however well-intentioned, is just as bad.
4She clearly believes the decision was as misguided as it was well-intentioned.
5In the wake of many notable recalls this is a well-intentioned idea.
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.
1The very life of the oasis was imperilled by our well-meant artifices.
2Their well-meant efforts did not have the effect of terrorizing the author.
3This well-meant action had an effect the opposite of that hoped for.
4The appeal, energetic and well-meant as it was, had no result whatever.
5It was well-meant, but she was not at all pleased with it.
6To have to listen to all this well-meant twaddle was misery indeed.
7But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
8So I did not take Harry Colemain's well-meant advice, and leave Aiken.
9It failed entirely as a well-meant effort in the way of implied reproof.
10His well-meant efforts may wreck you; his mistakes are sure to.
11The girl smiled like a child who detects some well-meant deceit, and said:
12The effect of much well-meant Christian effort is simply to irritate.
13An instinctive movement of repugnance has ruined many a well-meant effort.
14I like your ways, and will make you a well-meant offer.
15His inquiries about Gula called down upon him many well-meant jests.
16The last products of his muse show that this well-meant advice was bad.