Well-intentioned Synonyms

wĕlĭn-tĕnshənd
Good or right in conduct or character
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. honorable
  2. high-principled
  3. good-hearted
Marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results; ; ; - S.W.Maughm
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. well-meaning
  2. well-meant

Words Related to Well-intentioned

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. moral
  2. noble
  3. well-intended
  4. misguided

Well-intentioned Sentence Examples

  • As has been demonstrated the action taken was one of vacillation between these two courses, and was complicated by a native policy which, though well intentioned and intelligible, needlessly irritated the white colonists (British and Dutch) and did not prevent bloodshed.

  • His administration was, in many respects, well-intentioned and useful.

  • The well-intentioned abolition of the tax on meat also had not the desired result, for by a system of cornering the price of meat rose to more than it In the autumn of 1896 the grand vizier (Amin-es-Sultan) encountered much hostility from some members of the shahs Mi I t riai entourage and various high personages.

  • Yet he was a cautious and in the main a well-intentioned prince, and the extreme moderation of his original demands seems tc prove that he did not at first aim atthe crown.

  • With a well-intentioned but narrow mind, he had nothing in him to strike the imagination of his subjects.

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