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
Every four years, it seems there’s an ill-intentioned take that questions skating’s bona fides as a sport, usually on aesthetic grounds.
Quads Are Nonnegotiable In Men’s Figure Skating. But Fans Of Jason Brown Don’t Care. | Dvora Meyers | February 7, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightIn the movie, the New York Herald—a stand-in for the New York Times down to the font in its logo—is well intentioned and set on breaking the news of the impending disaster.
Don't Look Up Is More Than Your Standard Climate Cautionary Tale | Justin Worland | December 24, 2021 | Time“This is something that I think is well intentioned, but the consequences are alarming,” Salas said.
MTS Saw the Sign, and it Didn’t Open Up San Diego’s Eyes | Andrew Keatts | April 13, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoWhile I think these efforts are well intentioned, they have the potential to destroy a lot of value at most companies, both by being a distraction, and by creating internal division.
The controversy over Coinbase’s stance against corporate social responsibility | Lucinda Shen | September 29, 2020 | FortuneWhat 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 BEASTDon 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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