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well-intentioned

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Well-intentioned \Well`-in*ten"tioned\, a.
   Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.

         Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the
         wellintentioned party.                   --Macaulay.

Source : WordNet®

well-intentioned
     adj : marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate
           results; "a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"; "a
           well-meaning but tactless fellow"; "the son's
           well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the
           father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm; "blunt but well-meant
           criticism" [syn: {well-meaning}, {well-meant}]
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