intentioned

[ in-ten-shuhnd ]

adjective

1. having particular or specified intentions (often used in combination):

   a well-intentioned person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intentioned¹

First recorded in 1640–50; intention + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Every four years, it seems there’s an ill-intentioned take that questions skating’s bona fides as a sport, usually on aesthetic grounds.

From FiveThirtyEight

In 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.

From Time

“This is something that I think is well intentioned, but the consequences are alarming,” Salas said.

From Voice of San Diego

While 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.

From Fortune

What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile.

From The Daily Beast

The general rap on him is: reasonably well-intentioned but weak.

From The Daily Beast

This was not a musical performance, per se, but you bet your ass this was a “performance”—albeit a well-intentioned and noble one.

From The Daily Beast

And as with all cheerful, well-intentioned memes, the Challenge has provoked some good old-fashioned political trolling.

From The Daily Beast

Unfortunately, this can result in sending a well-intentioned but perilous message.

From The Daily Beast

Don Quijote de la Mancha himself could scarcely have made a more pure-intentioned yet more unpractical President.

From Project Gutenberg

You observe, that the heads of some well intentioned, though visionary Americans, run much upon a truce.

From Project Gutenberg

Pishtchalkin, the well-intentioned peaceable mediator, came in and sat with him for three hours.

From Project Gutenberg

The best intentioned forget the claims of others, listening to the sweet music of their own sweet voices.

From Project Gutenberg

Only the kind and well-intentioned could ask innocent questions which hurt like the thrust of a needle under a finger-nail.

From Project Gutenberg