| 词汇 | well-meant |
| 释义 | well meant adjective uk /ˌwel ˈment/ us /ˌwel ˈment/ said or done in order to be helpful, but not always achieving this: 善意的;出于好心的 [ before noun ]a well-meant suggestion出于好心的建议 Kind & thoughtful accommodating accommodatingly attentive attentively attentiveness cooperatively diplomacy diplomatic diplomatically eunoia motherly neighbourliness neighbourly nice nicely thoughtfully thoughtfulness unmalicious unmaliciously unspoiled well-meant | American Dictionarywell-meant adjective us/ˈwelˈment/ intended to be helpful or kind, although not always having a good effect Examples of well meantwell meant Wellmeant as the effort was, and as many of the people were, for doing that work, it failed in that object. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are two oddities to this well-meant description. I am surprised at the contrast between the amount of well-meant legislation on these matters and what has been actually done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The movement of forming silent columns was well-meant in its endeavour to discourage loose and ill-digested talk of a depressing character about the war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Parts of the documents are ingenious, worthy, wordy, thoughtful and well-meant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may have been one of his colleagues who gave the instructions to the district commissioners and no doubt the advice was well-meant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe, well-meant advice inspired by the want of knowledge of people en this side of the water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret that this well-meant debate is doomed to sterility. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems probable that in its first partial introduction it was a well-meant attempt to remedy an injustice and a hardship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is very well-meant but there are other bodies which can take action on these issues. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A right of veto, however well-meant, cannot be awarded to any section of the population; this causes division. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It will be just another wasted bureaucratically-controlled, well-meant nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But often they are ossified by too much well-meant planning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My experience did not bear out that well-meant prediction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this not a well-meant clause which it would be difficult to enforce in practice? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of well meant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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