do-goodery
- a word derived from do-gooder.
Example Sentences
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Those investments are no act of corporate do-goodery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
In no way do Jews lay claim over all acts of worldly do-goodery, but the lifestyle and belief system that so heavily guides Schwartz is deeply rooted in tenets of tikkun olam.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
Lark, accessible by ship only twice a year from the mainland, is a closed patriarchal society mired in religion, paganism, suspicion, superstition and corrupt do-goodery which has suspended it in a sort of unenlightened rigor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
Instead of focusing on pure do-goodery, which has a kind of limited market, the electric car would be an aspirational good.
From The Verge ● Jun. 25, 2019
When it came time to hand out the 2012 awards, earnest do-goodery won the day.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
