well-meaning
Adjective

well-meaning

  1. With good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.
    The professor is well-meaning enough, but he usually ruins things one way or another.
    • March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
      In the first scene, he bites the arm of a well-meaning counselor at the group home and dashes out of the building, all in a vain attempt to locate the father who abandoned him.
Translations
  • French: bien intentionné
  • German: gutmeinender
  • Italian: benintenzionato
  • Portuguese: bem-intencionado
  • Spanish: bienintencionado



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