goodman

¹

[good-muhn]

noun

Archaic.

plural

goodmen 

1. the master of a household; husband.

2. (initial capital letter),  a title of respect used for a man below the rank of gentleman, especially a farmer or yeoman.

Goodman

²

[good-muhn]

noun

1. Benjamin David Benny, 1909–86, U.S. jazz clarinetist and bandleader.

goodman

¹

/ ˈɡʊdmən /

noun

1. a husband

2. a man not of gentle birth: used as a title

3. a master of a household

Goodman

²

/ ˈɡʊdmən /

noun

1. Benny, full name Benjamin David Goodman. 1909–86, US jazz clarinetist and bandleader, whose treatment of popular songs created the jazz idiom known as swing

Word History and Origins

Origin of goodman¹

Middle English word dating back to 1125–75; good, -man

Example Sentences

For six seasons on “Better Call Saul,” AMC’s hit prequel spinoff to “Breaking Bad” that told the backstory of Walter White’s smarmy lawyer Saul Goodman a.k.a.

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The fan-favorite type A lawyer with a perfectly-positioned ponytail was McGill/Goodman’s principled but increasingly conflicted girlfriend who got caught up in his elaborate schemes and paid a price for his crimes.

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Our mutual friend and colleague Ryan Goodman was on CBS reporting about what is happening inside the Justice Department and how it has affected judges who are overseeing some of these cases.

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I keep thinking about people like you, Joyce, who worked at the Justice Department for so many years, and how there is no corresponding image to the East Wing being chomped out of the White House by a bulldozer for what’s happened to the DOJ, what’s happening right now at Main Justice, and how devastating it is when federal judges are starting to say, as Ryan Goodman suggested, I just don’t believe anything they say anymore.

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Ryan Goodman’s utterly immaculate work is about “the presumption of regularity,” which is a legal presumption courts applied that said: We assume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the Justice Department acted in good faith, and that public officials fulfill their official duties.

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