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• s  marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results
  blunt but well-meant criticism

• This was Demme in from the fringe, operating in the mainstream and about to lose his way with the ponderous, if well-meant, AIDS drama, Philadelphia.
• Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace.
• All friendly powers wish China well, but it will not be a fitting response to their well-meant intentions if we do not fully discharge our duty of giving protection to the lives .

• well-intentioned
• well-meaning

News & Articles

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• Bernstein: Go Ahead, Make Fun Of “Boston Strong”
  As soon as a well-meant charitable effort is twisted into a Stanley Cup rallying cry, all bets are off.
  June 15, 2013 - CBS Chicago

Quotes

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• Malcolm Turnbull in The Australian
  Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said: "If we fail to reinforce the words of last year with actions and results and a renewed focus on indigenous issues, then we will sadly relegate that apology to nothing more than another well-meant historical...
• George Carey in Telegraph.co.uk
  Lord Carey said: "What is happening in Western Europe is not persecution but a marginalising of faith which seeks to portray it as a matter of personal conscience only. Some examples of this originate from a mistaken but well-meant political...