do-gooding
[doo-goo d-ing]
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noun, adjective
earnestly doing good; focusing on humanitarian causes in a naive and often ineffectual way.
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His life is well-planned and hard-won; he has a stable, do-gooding career.
The news made tabloid headlines around the world, a grim case of do-gooding apparently gone wrong.