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Well-intentioned   /wɛl-ɪntˈɛntʃənd/   Listen
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Well-intentioned  adj.  Having upright intentions or honorable purposes. "Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party."






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"Well-intentioned" Quotes from Famous Books



... worthy doctor run on till some more discreet friend suggested that however well-intentioned the visit, I did not seem to be fully equal to it,—my flushed cheek and anxious eye betraying that the fever of my wound had commenced. They left me, therefore, once more alone, and to my solitary musings over the ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... broken by the inconsequent bleating of a flock of sheep wandering in search of their scant pasturage or huddling together, an agitated mass of grimy wool, its outskirts painfully exposed to the sharp but well-intentioned admonitions of a somewhat irascible collie. Neither man nor beast took special note of the overgrown boy striding so confidently on his way, nor was one observer more likely than the other to guess what inspiring thoughts were animating the roughly clad, uncouth form. The boy's ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller

... a gallant man unquestionably, and as far as can be seen an honest and a well-intentioned one, but his policy was a purely personal, or at most a provincial, one. As for the interests of the country at large they seem hardly to have come within his ken. That fashion of looking at the matter had now so long been the established rule that it had probably ceased indeed ...
— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless

... congregate on market day, he gets the representation of a fire company or two, and from time to time sends in a risk to the head office, whose underwriters go nearly frantic in endeavoring to decipher the hidden truth in the dusty reports of these well-intentioned amateurs. ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... opposition to this measure had been worked up in the East by a small group of well-intentioned nature lovers who did not, perhaps, realize that this was one of many thousand valleys in the Sierras, and one not, in any sense, unique in its beauty. The plan proposed to convert a remote, mosquito-haunted marsh, ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane


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