How to Use mean well in a Sentence

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• Also, talent tend to have a lot of people in their ear; most of which mean well but have no idea on how to create success.
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• And everyone may mean well, but in 2020, people have been a little suspect.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Lot of players mean well, but have better futures elsewhere.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• David Michael might mean well and Shannon Delaney puts on a good show, but does any person in the entire planet’s history want to have a dog named after them?
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
• Hélène finds the awkward response of her social circle unendurable; people mean well, but are terrified of saying the wrong thing.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• In the pods, contestants who may mean well understand that first and foremost, this is a competition, and the singular goal for many of them is to walk out of there with a fiancé no matter what.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• New retailers looking to enter health care may mean well, promising personal health care delivered to one’s phone, watch, or doorstep.
  — Owen Tripp, STAT, 12 Jan. 2023
• People who mean well often say insensitive things, and adoptive parents can be on the receiving end.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• And then there are people who mean well but have unhelpful reactions to your cancer diagnosis.
  — Alice Oglethorpe, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2020
• But those who take up that responsibility and mean well ought to give us more than the easy, know-nothing cynicism we’ve been handed down for generations.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• Relying on self reports from suppliers also introduces room for error, even from those who are making the effort and mean well.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
• Understand that your in-laws probably mean well, but do not allow yourself to be dragged into an argument about your decision.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
• Google does mean well by favoring longer, keyword-rich posts, videos, and studio-quality photography in its algorithm.
  — Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
• The result is worse customer service than ever, but also customer service that may mean well, but lacks the experience, information, authority, or all of these, to help you.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, the show pushes back at homophobia—subtly, without cant—by celebrating gentleness, candor, and vulnerability, the ebb and flow of emotion among people who mean well.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• Critics acknowledge that many of the cooperative experts mean well, but say their influence has been negligible.
  — Barbara Ortutay, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
• Players enlist family, friends and business associates who may mean well, but are inexperienced and ineffective at running a nonprofit.
  — Jason Wolf, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Critics of public debt accumulation usually mean well, but in many cases the alternative to steeper borrowing by governments is steeper borrowing by individuals and companies.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• Awkward situations create awkwardness, and generally people mean well.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024