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well-in·ten·tioned
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Princeton's WordNet
well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meantadjective
marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results
"a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"; "a well-meaning but tactless fellow"; "the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm; "blunt but well-meant criticism"
Wiktionary
well-intentionedadjective
Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
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well-intentioned
Well-intentioned refers to having good, benevolent, or kind intentions or motives, even if the results are not always successful or beneficial. It describes actions, behaviors or individuals guided by a desire to do good or to help others.
Webster Dictionary
Well-intentionedadjective
having upright intentions or honorable purposes
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of well-intentioned in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of well-intentioned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of well-intentioned in a Sentence
While the Dash for the Cash may have been well-intentioned, it only underscores the fact that educators don’t have the resources necessary to meet the needs of their students, as a state, we shouldn’t be forcing teachers to crawl around on an ice rink to get the money they need to fund their classrooms.
It is possible, and even likely, that other well-intentioned preparedness efforts may inadvertently cause children and adults to place themselves in additional danger in a crisis situation, children( and adults) might be taught to fight a heavily armed intruder, when fleeing or hiding would be a more appropriate response.
I could write a book on our frustration in literally hundreds of meetings with European leaders who, however otherwise well intentioned, refused to grasp the problem staring them -- the anti-Semitic problem staring them in the face, they ducked it they avoided it ... and now 15 years later the problem is so big and so deadly and so rooted that it's going to take a lot more than one eloquent speech by a president or a prime minister.
The Endangered Species Act has gone from a well-intentioned piece of legislation in the 1970s to one that is dictated by environmental activist groups taking advantage of the adversarial system.
I understand that there are some well-intentioned Democrats and candidates who believe that the best way forward is a middle ground strategy that antagonizes no one, that stands out to nobody and that changes nothing, in my view, that approach is not just bad public policy, but it is a failed political strategy that I feel could end up with the reelection of Donald Trump.
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