do-goodery

noun

The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.

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Meanings

noundo-goodery (plural do-gooderies)

plural do-gooderies

  1. The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.
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    2010 By Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee. P.5 Emissions Performance Standards Professor Gibbins: It would do if the EPS was applied properly to biomass. With large-scale biomass at the moment we are seeing some travesties of environmental do-goodery, in fact, because we are seeing 295 MW biomass plants being built...

Origin

From do-gooder + -ery.

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do-goodery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/do-goodery

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Chicago

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