well-wishing

Antonyms for well-wishing

Word Origin & History

1580s, from well (adv.) + agent noun from wish (v.). Well-wishing is recorded from 1560s.

It is the well-wishing from the hearts of women, who go back to weep in silence.

I felt that in the midst of my family, in the midst of well-wishing hearts, I was lonely.

A god might be conceived of as an amiable and well-wishing father, foolishly indulgent toward his children.

"I wishes ye a gay journey then," the henchman assured him, using the stereotyped phrase of well-wishing, to the wayfarer.

Fortune, or rather the well-wishing wits of friends below, gave Larry a few precious moments more than he had counted on.

While she enunciated her few and simple words of well-wishing, she looked straight out at them from deep black eyes.

Shaikh Byazd now began to send persons to us from Akhs to testify to well-wishing and pressingly invite us to Akhs.

Again she vowed her belief to the God who would send one sign of his well-wishing toward her.

From a well-wishing friend, but obligated to vote (against his conscience) for the Blues.

My well-wishing friends here sent me a little money, which came to hand, shortly after I saw you.