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How to use well-meant in a sentence

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Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling.
Thus, well-meant initiatives may occasionally turn out to be confusing and counter-productive.
He was always ready to take a joke, with his cheeky but well-meant comments.
These predictions may have been spectacularly wrong, but they were well-meant.
I trust that this entire exposition will be accepted as a well-meant guidance of God, speaking to everyone through His Word.
I like Jack Murtha's comments because I thought they were serious and well-meant and thought through.
These well-meant but counterproductive measures served mainly to misallocate the available stock of grain.
As such, the industry needs to lobby more effectively to ensure that well-meant legislation may in fact be detrimental to the society.
Back at the Central Academy, the path of international understanding is paved with well-meant misunderstandings.
I know it's well-meant, but when you've received so much of it over the years it does become rather tiresome.
So encourage meaningful or well-meant links, but don't accept presence on link farms as these will probably be penalised.
Unfortunately, the type of neighbour who keeps a large, angry Alsatian in a minuscule 11th-floor flat is unlikely to look kindly on your well-meant tips about animal welfare.
At first I thought the gift was very thoughtful and well-meant.
Why do people react to well-meant attention in such an ungrateful manner?
He will be keeping things simple, playing to his strengths and implementing well-meant advice sparingly.
Mr DeGrandpre's advice is well-meant but hardly realistic.
It was a well-meant, if total, fabrication.
I believe horsemen and horsewomen are well-meant.
However, some examples taken from other fields of international law, such as disputes concerning the protection of international investments, show that even a well-meant regulation can turn against the State that adopted it.
These policies build on the understanding that even well-meant external measures of support can, especially in crisis and war regions, have unintentional negative consequences.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
Through this well-meant blunder of an understrapper those on board the launch had received warning that we were on their track.
Of all the devices to entrap Augusta, this well-meant trick was the most enticing.
Kindly and well-meant advice, but levy would have none of it.
In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs.
There were reams of well-meant advice and quires of threats of violence.
I have not been quite well for some days past, and poor old Jup annoys me, almost beyond endurance, by his well-meant attentions Would you believe it?
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