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well-intentioned adj (well intentioned when postpositive)
having or indicating benevolent intentions, usually with unfortunate results ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations well-intentioned [ˌwelɪnˈtenʃnd] ADJ [person] → con buenas intenciones; [act] → bienintencionado; [lie] → piadoso well-intentioned [ˌwɛlɪnˈtɛnʃ/ənd] adj → benintenzionato/a Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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at heart by heart do-gooder do-goodism goodness heart heart and soul Hearted hearts innocent Intentioned misguided misguidedly society sympathetic take to heart well well-meaning well-meant | Some well-intentioned, but rather obstinate persons, could not at first comprehend how, if the moon displays invariably the same face to the earth during her revolution, she can describe one turn round herself. I suspected at first that she was desirous of throwing cold water on this growing intimacy - to quench, as it were, the kindling flame of our friendship - but discovering, at length, in spite of her prejudice against me, that I was perfectly harmless, and even well-intentioned, and that, between myself and my dog, her son derived a great deal of pleasure from the acquaintance that he would not otherwise have known, she ceased to object, and even welcomed my coming with a smile. Some well-intentioned men in this State, deriving their notions from the language and forms which obtain in our courts, have been induced to consider it as an implied supersedure of the trial by jury, in favor of the civil-law mode of trial, which prevails in our courts of admiralty, probate, and chancery. |
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