intentioned
having particular or specified intentions (often used in combination): a well-intentioned person.
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How to use intentioned in a sentence
What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile.
The general rap on him is: reasonably well-intentioned but weak.
After the Israel Synagogue Massacre: A New Intifada? | Michael Tomasky | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was not a musical performance, per se, but you bet your ass this was a “performance”—albeit a well-intentioned and noble one.
Butts, ‘Bang Bang’ & Beyoncé: The Craziest MTV Video Music Awards Moments | Kevin Fallon | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd as with all cheerful, well-intentioned memes, the Challenge has provoked some good old-fashioned political trolling.
Ice Bucket Challenge Leads to Political Trolling | Asawin Suebsaeng | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnfortunately, this can result in sending a well-intentioned but perilous message.
'Genie, You're Free': Suicide Is Not Liberation | Russell Saunders | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Don Quijote de la Mancha himself could scarcely have made a more pure-intentioned yet more unpractical President.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetYou observe, that the heads of some well intentioned, though visionary Americans, run much upon a truce.
Pishtchalkin, the well-intentioned peaceable mediator, came in and sat with him for three hours.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan SergeevichThe best intentioned forget the claims of others, listening to the sweet music of their own sweet voices.
Only the kind and well-intentioned could ask innocent questions which hurt like the thrust of a needle under a finger-nail.
Lady Lilith | Stephen McKenna
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