ill-intentioned

Their crafty use of soft power, however ill-intentioned, predates the “change” in our new foreign-policy approach.

Let us remember that he was good-hearted, and not ill-intentioned, though imbued with the false ideas of his day.

And yet it would be most unjust to represent him as a deliberately bad or ill-intentioned man.

Although it was plain that no great boldness was in his spirit, it was also clear that his mind was not ill-intentioned.

But ill-intentioned men were posted at several places along my route.