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do-gooder
noun
a well-intentioned person who believes in and supports charity US, 1927
The term suggests both a naivete and a slightly cloying sense of self-righteousness.- He doesn’t appeal to the modern worker. They smell the do-gooder in him. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 138, 1963
- The polio boxes are the old man’s old lady’s personal do-gooder project. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 17, 1970
- But I had to visit with a number of social workers and do-gooders[.] — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 198, 1990
- Candy Pringle and some other do-gooder seniors from my high school just dropped by with a frozen turkey and a big bag of canned goods. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 319, 1993
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