Synonyms for well-intentioned
well-in·ten·tioned

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1. well-intentionedadjective

   Synonyms:
   well-meant, well-meaning

   Antonyms:
   ill-intentioned

2. well-intentionedadjective

   Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.

   Synonyms:
   well-meaning, well-meant

   Antonyms:
   ill-intentioned

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1. well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meantadjective

   marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results

   "a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"; "a well-meaning but tactless fellow"; "the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm; "blunt but well-meant criticism"

   Synonyms:
   well-meaning, unthreatening, well-meant

   Antonyms:
   unintended

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1. List of paraphrases for "well-intentioned":

   well-meaning, well-meant, well-intended

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1. David Harris:

   I could write a book on our frustration in literally hundreds of meetings with European leaders who, however otherwise well intentioned, refused to grasp the problem staring them -- the anti-Semitic problem staring them in the face, they ducked it they avoided it ... and now 15 years later the problem is so big and so deadly and so rooted that it's going to take a lot more than one eloquent speech by a president or a prime minister.

2. James Inhofe:

   The Endangered Species Act has gone from a well-intentioned piece of legislation in the 1970s to one that is dictated by environmental activist groups taking advantage of the adversarial system.

3. Ken Calvert:

   The administration's ivory rule is well-intentioned, but was not crafted carefully enough to account for law-abiding Americans who may possess legally obtained products containing ivory.

4. Amy Peikoff:

   Individuals should not be outsourcing their critical thinking toanyone — whether another individual, a company … or a government official, how has the West come to distrust the individual in such a fundamental way ? An appeal to authority is, as basic logic tells us, a fallacy. It is not the road to salvation, no matter how well intentioned.

5. Elizardo Sanchez:

   This man is well intentioned, but I don't think he can achieve miracles here.