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well-meaningˌwell-ˈmeaning adjective   - Well-meaning relatives gave me all kinds of advice.
- Even well-meaning parents cannot protect their children from everything.
- It was a well-meaning effort to help the poor.
- Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
- And what would be the fate of these creatures once they were sold to well-meaning but probably ignorant people?
- In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.
- In her well-meaning way, she always put the best face on everything, whether it was true or not.
- It was fun being whisked to Plymouth, though she hadn't much in common with this well-meaning but heavy family.
- There are a lot of well-meaning people in this who worship Ross Perot.
- This well-meaning law will have little effect on the type of owner at whom it is primarily aimed.
- Yet the whole magazine is like this, an expensive, well-meaning, worthless blast of hot air.
intending to be helpful or kind, but causing problems► mean well to try to be helpful or kind, but really only cause problems for someone or annoy them: · The doctor meant well, but he was not really listening to me.· She means well, but she's a bit tactless. ► well-meaning intending to be helpful, but not able to achieve anything useful: · Well-meaning relatives gave me all kinds of advice.· Even well-meaning parents cannot protect their children from everything. ► good intentions if you have good intentions , you think of doing something helpful or kind, but often never do it: · Good intentions are not enough. Make an exercise programme for yourself and keep to it.· The department's good intentions have been buried under a mountain of rules and paperwork. ► well-meant/well-intentioned an action or a statement that is well-meant or well-intentioned is intended to be kind or helpful, but either does not help at all, insults someone, or causes harm: · Recent changes in housing policy, though well-meant, have done more harm than good.· Well-intentioned grandparents sometimes interfere with a mother's way of bringing up her children. NOUN► people· In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.· You can not just take two well-meaning people, give them a baby, and expect them to parent equally.· There are a lot of well-meaning people in this who worship Ross Perot. intending to be helpful, but not succeeding:  A lot of problems can be caused by well-meaning friends. He’s very well-meaning, but he doesn’t really understand what’s going on. |