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with the best will in the world en · ADP

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  1. (UK) Even with an optimistic and charitable outlook; used to indicate the intractability of a problem.
    • Through the 1980s and 1990s it did not train Persian speakers, and eventually those with language and country experience aged and retired, leaving a gap that, with the best will in the world, will take at least a decade to fill. 2009, Daniel Brumberg, Dina Shehata, Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World:
    • With the best will in the world, I find it very difficult to explain how these official sources might have been subverted to falsify information, peddle untruths or generally seek to play games with the general public […] 2012, Jonathon Porritt, Capitalism as if the World Matters, page 4:

Translations (3)

fr avec toute la bonne volonté du monde (Translations) · fr avec la meilleure volonté du monde (Translations) · fi parhaalla tahdolla (kaan) (Translations)