do-good
of or befitting a do-gooder.
Origin of do-good
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How to use do-good in a sentence
Unlike many do-good products, Garden Fresh Farms does not exist as a social good company.
America’s Next Agricultural Revolution Will Happen Indoors | Sarah Kunst | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHere are your will me be ready; What would ye that we should do?Good Deeds.
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse | VariousWe'd have four good meals every day and baths every morning, and we'd only feel virtuous and 'smarmy' and do-good-to-the-poor-y.
Changing Winds | St. John G. Ervinedo-good is exhortatory enough, but it rather smacks of works; hence, possibly, the reason why I have only seen it once.
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature | Charles W. Bardsley
Other Idioms and Phrases with do-good
Act in an upright, moral way; engage in philanthropy. For example, Social workers are trained to help people to help themselves, not simply going around doing good. This term was first recorded in a.d. 725. Also see do any good; do one good.
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