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• s  marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results
  a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter

• What drives her as much as anything else is the perspective that comes from representing a small, relatively poor state where the principal effect of well-intentioned, piecemeal .
• Robin's work illustrates what's best about people using the Internet: not well-intentioned yet futile do-goodism but business that's also a community service.
• From here it is but a step to the "polite lies and flattery," still well-intentioned, which Italians use to make life more agreeable.

• well-meaning
• well-meant

News & Articles

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• Glen Ridge editorial: Taxpayers, not DOE, should set school chief pay
  The superintendent salary cap that the state instituted three years ago seemed well-intentioned. But the cap raises some troubling issues as well.
  June 13, 2013 - The Record
• Down the Wrong Path: Book Details Psychiatry's Lack of Objective Science
  Psychiatry -- which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good -- is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.
  June 12, 2013 - Newswise
• Bike Wars: Despite Citi Bike's well-intentioned offer to...
  Despite Citi Bike's well-intentioned offer to cut annual memberships from $95 to $60 for public housing residents, there remains the slight issue that there aren't docking stations near the vast majority of the city's NYCHA complexes, particularly those uptown. The...
  June 10, 2013 - Curbed New York

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Guardian Unlimited
  Our energy problem has become an energy crisis because no matter how well-intentioned the promise, no matter how bold the proposal, they all fall victim to the same Washington politics,Obama said.
• Robert Gates in Reuters India
  These efforts today -- however well-intentioned and even heroic -- add up to less than the sum of the parts,Gates said in a speech at a dinner organized by the US Institute of Peace in Washington.
• Andy Stern in International Herald Tribune
  Sometimes mergers don't work,Stern said. "This is the poster child of a well-intentioned effort that didn't succeed for the workers."