goody two shoes

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1. derogatoryA goody-goody; a person who is almost always perfectly well-behaved, with an implication of smugness.

   [Jeremy Hunt] is charming, thoughtful and amusing in private, and one ally said he was "almost a goody two shoes".

   2012 April 24, Patrick Wintour, “Jeremy Hunt: the 'goody two shoes' caught up in BSkyB scandal”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   […] When jabbed by ethicists, he at first asserted, "I'm not Goody Two-Shoes," before acknowledging a minor lapse.

   2006 June 18, William Safire, quoting Harry Reid, “Logoloco”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   But the flaw at the heart of the movie is the decision of this goody-two-shoes to commit a series of robberies to support the family.

   2014 December 11, Stephen Holden, “Goody-Two-Shoes Loses His Footing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: boy scout