well actually

Example Sentences

• "The well-actually crowd wants as much as everyone else to participate in the conversation. They want to be loved. But instead of rolling with the punches and participating in a brainstorm of ideas and exploding humor, they contribute interruptions, facts and details that merely produce stop energy on an ongoing discussion. They turn the center of attention towards them. The well-actually crowd means well. They want to be loved, they just have not realized that they are undermining their own quest for friends."
• "A well-actually happens when someone says something that's almost - but not entirely - correct, and you say, "well, actually…" and then give a minor correction. This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on the actual conversation. This doesn't mean the Recurse Center isn't about truth-seeking or that we don't care about being precise. Almost all well-actually's in our experience are about grandstanding, not truth-seeking. (Thanks to Miguel de Icaza for originally coining the term "well-actually.")"
• "While some people might’ve taken this statement as a diss aimed at the “Bad Blood” singer, Yeezy shared his “well actually” clarification, and said Swift gave him the green light to state that."
• "Altho in this one group there is a “well actually” person. So much so that everyone makes fun of him for it and he ends up being the butt of jokes bc of it. In that specific scenario I rebel against the group and get really mad at everyone and take the side of the “well actually” person even tho it annoys me too lol."
• "“You know what it’s been like down here since the broken toys got put away? Actually kind of bearable! We’ve been able to have conversations and eat lunch and do big, girthy shits without Will barging in and well actually-ing us or one of you calling us gay for speaking in complete sentences!"
• "It becomes a little annoying though when you've been working with a client for months, assessing their current situation, their objectives, their constraints, and their organizational agility to cope with architectural change... only to get well-actuallied by someone who heard about your case 3 minutes ago."