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do-good
[ doo-good ]
adjective
- of or befitting a do-gooder.
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
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 .Example Sentences
Unlike many do-good products, Garden Fresh Farms does not exist as a social good company.
Here are your will me be ready; What would ye that we should do?Good Deeds.
We'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.
Do-good is exhortatory enough, but it rather smacks of works; hence, possibly, the reason why I have only seen it once.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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