Example sentences for: well-meaning

How can you use “well-meaning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some may consider this sheer perversity; however, I have a feeling that the fault lies with those two well-meaning gentlemen from Scarsdale, who, in labeling their unique game, neglected to suggest that it combines the skills of squash and tennis.

  • These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing.

  • The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz also praises the film, saying "it will strike a chord with audiences for the same reason that its predecessors did: It is earnest, well-meaning, and delightfully free of irony.

  • Such intervention could stop the growth of that sector, it said: "In other words, even well-meaning regulations designed to protect consumers could prove counterproductive."

  • However, your point is taken that well-meaning pleasantries should be accepted for what they are, and Prudie's New Year's resolution is to chill when it comes to banalities.


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