• Well-meant

    Full definition of well-meant

    Adjective

    well-meant

    1. Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.
      • Wodehouse Offing|XVII|When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.
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