well-meaningly

Which of these methods does more lasting harm, the malignly blunt or the well-meaningly insidious?

'Rhymes With Fagin' 2010

After the revelations of Ben Trafford's past track record and including his level of honesty and truthfulness in business dealing, his criminal record for fraud and deceit and deceitful business practices, his swindling of employees and investors and handing out bad checks, I can't regard his comments here as either benignly or well-meaningly fomented.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

Meanwhile, a young, impetuous kung fu master (Donnie Yen) is well-meaningly but misguidedly opposing his efforts.

Kung Fu Night! Fist of the Red Dragon 2007

We were young, and to us the miraculous insecurity and inconsequence of human life was still a little impressive, and we had not yet come to regard the universe as a more or less comfortable place, well-meaningly constructed anyhow -- by Somebody -- for us to reside in.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

'Oh! wait a minute,' said the wretched Cyril, feeling how foolishly yet well-meaningly he had carried out the Psammead's instructions.

The Story of the Amulet 1891

It was the kind of thing a guy's friends, and particularly this group of friends, would well-meaningly do to try to get their buddy through a rough time.

TIME.com: Top Stories James Poniewozik 2011

It is possible that he himself and others more or less well-meaningly, though more or less maladroitly, following his lead, may have exaggerated the coherence and the architectural design of the

The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Honor�� de Balzac 1824