adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
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In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.
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You can not just take two well-meaning people , give them a baby, and expect them to parent equally.
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There are a lot of well-meaning people in this who worship Ross Perot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Well-meaning relatives gave me all kinds of advice.
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Even well-meaning parents cannot protect their children from everything.
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It was a well-meaning effort to help the poor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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And what would be the fate of these creatures once they were sold to well-meaning but probably ignorant people?
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In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.
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In her well-meaning way, she always put the best face on everything, whether it was true or not.
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It was fun being whisked to Plymouth, though she hadn't much in common with this well-meaning but heavy family.
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There are a lot of well-meaning people in this who worship Ross Perot.
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This well-meaning law will have little effect on the type of owner at whom it is primarily aimed.
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Yet the whole magazine is like this, an expensive, well-meaning , worthless blast of hot air.