Definition of "well-meaning" []

• Well-intentioned. (adjective)

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• "But what permanently endeared him to many in the city was his reaction a few years ago to a nickname that well-meaning supporters began applying to him: El Hombre."
• "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
• "In 2008, she says, 3,849 out of 9,000 California schools used ESY, which she regards as part of the "new Food Hysteria" that is promoted by “an agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well-meaning ideology.”"