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do-gooding
[ doo-good-ing ]
noun
- earnestly doing good; focusing on humanitarian causes in a naive and often ineffectual way.
Word History and Origins
Origin of do-gooding1
Example Sentences
Retta devotes her life to do-gooding, fighting the everyday killers — “diabetes, obesity ... maternal deaths, alcoholism.”
Although Miranda is merely an intern at Human Rights Watch, she is thrilled about her new position — she’s finally free from corporate law and instead engaged in actual do-gooding.
“All these do-gooding New Dealers. They’re making it very difficult to conduct business in my usual fashion.”
The Sith are the malevolent enemies of the do-gooding Jedi.
Just as most fairy tales are derived from darker, grimmer backstories, however, bird feeding, also, isn’t entirely innocent do-gooding for our feathered friends.
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