Words similar to well-meaning
Example sentences for: well-meaning
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Hereditary monarchies once provided a few well-meaning rulers.
Consider, for instance, the now-standard formulation that if blacks would only surrender their race-consciousness, we could all ascend to a colorblind nirvana . You hear this line from plenty of well-meaning whites.
Life in Hell hits us where we live: under the thumb of well-meaning, rational, but ultimately psychotic and abusive authority.
Frantz (full disclosure here, I correspond with him) and Collins tend to be earnest and well-meaning, hence sometimes a tad pompous.
I cringe when I think of the hunger there must've been among African-American actors for what will end up being the highest profile part for a black man this year: the John Coffey role in The Green Mile . Michael Duncan Clarke handles the role with all the dignity he can muster, and it's undeniably a well-meaning movie.