Well-intentioned definition

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Marked by or having good intentions.

A well-intentioned but clumsy waiter; well-intentioned criticism.

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Having or showing good, kindly, or benevolent intentions.
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Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
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Well-intentioned Sentence Examples

  • As has been demonstrated the action taken was one of vacillation between these two courses, and was complicated by a native policy which, though well intentioned and intelligible, needlessly irritated the white colonists (British and Dutch) and did not prevent bloodshed.

  • His administration was, in many respects, well-intentioned and useful.

  • The well-intentioned abolition of the tax on meat also had not the desired result, for by a system of cornering the price of meat rose to more than it In the autumn of 1896 the grand vizier (Amin-es-Sultan) encountered much hostility from some members of the shahs Mi I t riai entourage and various high personages.

  • Yet he was a cautious and in the main a well-intentioned prince, and the extreme moderation of his original demands seems tc prove that he did not at first aim atthe crown.

  • With a well-intentioned but narrow mind, he had nothing in him to strike the imagination of his subjects.

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