Definition of "well-wisher" []

• One who extends good wishes to another. (noun)

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• "Worst of all, when her son Sebastian died, her home was besieged by reporters, one of whom rushed into the house with a bunch of flowers pretending to be a well-wisher."
• ""Anything that happens now is better than before," he said when a well-wisher asked him what's next for Egypt."
• "When I posed the question to her, she admitted she may not have thought this way or have been such a well-wisher 25 years ago, but over the years, there was something about knowing herself and coming into her own which helped her hone this particular approach to life."