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Definition of goody-goody in English: goody-goodynoun informal A smug or ostentatiously virtuous person. Example sentencesExamples - His nicknames for me were annoying and I could tell that he thought of me as a preppy goody-goody.
- I decide to lie to save my hide - who wouldn't except for, well, those goody-goodies with such conscientious hearts?
- Conner was known about the school as the goody-goody to all teachers and a suck up to Jocks.
- They weren't all insufferable goody-goodies as children, or always models of perfect sanctity as adults.
- Among some sections of the party, Martin is regarded as too much of a goody-goody, too much the altar boy.
- Then Dave muttered something about her being a goody-goody, they all laughed, and walked away.
- Keeping cool doesn't make you a wimp or goody-goody - it shows maturity.
- He was always trying to encourage me to bunk off and go hang out in the caff at the park, but I being the goody-goody that I was always refused convinced I'd get caught.
- Maybe if you stopped going out with such a boring, goody-goody, you'd be much better off.
- Even more special was the loyalty the class exhibited when he asked where it was - not one person, not even the goody-goody, said a word.
- During the whole horribly stressful process you have to be a goody-goody.
- He was like a god to goody-goodies like Nicole and her friends.
- He's chirpy, enthusiastic and obsessively neat - a bit of a goody-goody, in fact.
- David and I never got along very well - I found him to be a jerk most of the time and he found me to be a goody-goody - but he was a good hockey player so we both tried to tolerate each other.
- Ever since your suspension, you've been all goody-goody since then.
- Kaitlin had been one of the goody-goodies in school.
- I wasn't a goody-goody; I mean, I drank at parties and all, but I generally found getting drunk seemed to be both dangerous and pointless.
- He despised such people, goody-goodies annoyed the hell out of him, especially when it was his own two-faced cousin.
- She's kind of a goody-goody and quiet, but is just so awesome.
- If the teacher ever leaves the room and puts a few goody-goodies in charge, look out.
adjective informal Smug or ostentatiously virtuous. Example sentencesExamples - My goody-goody reputation would have been gone forever.
- I'm not exactly a troublemaker but then I'm not a goody-goody type student either.
- If she had still been a goody-goody she would have been so modest and fainted at the idea.
- Oh, but he's too goody-goody to let her know or do anything about it.
- But that's exactly what Edwards has shown he can't or won't do, for fear of blemishing his goody-goody image.
- At that time, their denial was their belief that they were popular all over the World as a paternalistic big brotherly, goody-goody neighbor.
- Strictly not for the sweet goody-goody music listeners, is this album.
- I have some goody-goody friends who are really nice, but we don't have anything in common.
- If fairy tales make you think of simpering goody-goody princesses and men in tights with page boy haircuts, has Ella Enchanted got a surprise for you.
- He is so different from all the other boring, goody-goody superheroes.
- I continued to hold the smile, feeling like on of those goody-goody teacher's pets.
- Hattie was the little goody-goody sister, and I was the bad one.
- Moore is Julie, the goody-goody daughter of a reverend in a North Carolina town.
- He looked like the goody-goody boy next door, tall and with a slight build, a little tanned, with wavy brown hair and plain brown eyes.
- The goody-goody story he told - actually, he made it up - about little George cutting down the cherry tree has a nice moral, but it was too good to be true.
- Maybe they just like goody-goody sweet entertainment.
- From high school, I felt that I had the goody-goody thing and the academic thing pretty well locked up, but I was a geek in need of a social life, so I moved into a frat.
- This approach isn't just a matter of goody-goody liberal ideals; it's the only solution that has any hope of working in the long run.
- I didn't want my school friends to think of me as a goody-goody type just because I was a pastor's kid, so I swore and drank and got high with them.
- Despite his goody-goody reputation Deverin was usually the one who either supplied Wolf with the necessary means of his trouble making, or got him out of trouble.
Synonyms self-righteous, sanctimonious, pious prim and proper, prim, proper, strait-laced, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy informal starchy, square, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud rare Grundyish, Pecksniffian Definition of goody-goody in US English: goody-goodynounˈˌɡʊdi ˈˌɡʊdiˈˌɡo͝odē ˈˌɡo͝odē informal A smug or obtrusively virtuous person. Example sentencesExamples - Conner was known about the school as the goody-goody to all teachers and a suck up to Jocks.
- Maybe if you stopped going out with such a boring, goody-goody, you'd be much better off.
- Kaitlin had been one of the goody-goodies in school.
- They weren't all insufferable goody-goodies as children, or always models of perfect sanctity as adults.
- He was always trying to encourage me to bunk off and go hang out in the caff at the park, but I being the goody-goody that I was always refused convinced I'd get caught.
- He's chirpy, enthusiastic and obsessively neat - a bit of a goody-goody, in fact.
- She's kind of a goody-goody and quiet, but is just so awesome.
- I wasn't a goody-goody; I mean, I drank at parties and all, but I generally found getting drunk seemed to be both dangerous and pointless.
- If the teacher ever leaves the room and puts a few goody-goodies in charge, look out.
- David and I never got along very well - I found him to be a jerk most of the time and he found me to be a goody-goody - but he was a good hockey player so we both tried to tolerate each other.
- Ever since your suspension, you've been all goody-goody since then.
- I decide to lie to save my hide - who wouldn't except for, well, those goody-goodies with such conscientious hearts?
- He was like a god to goody-goodies like Nicole and her friends.
- Even more special was the loyalty the class exhibited when he asked where it was - not one person, not even the goody-goody, said a word.
- He despised such people, goody-goodies annoyed the hell out of him, especially when it was his own two-faced cousin.
- Keeping cool doesn't make you a wimp or goody-goody - it shows maturity.
- During the whole horribly stressful process you have to be a goody-goody.
- Among some sections of the party, Martin is regarded as too much of a goody-goody, too much the altar boy.
- His nicknames for me were annoying and I could tell that he thought of me as a preppy goody-goody.
- Then Dave muttered something about her being a goody-goody, they all laughed, and walked away.
adjectiveˈˌɡʊdi ˈˌɡʊdiˈˌɡo͝odē ˈˌɡo͝odē informal Smug or obtrusively virtuous. Example sentencesExamples - This approach isn't just a matter of goody-goody liberal ideals; it's the only solution that has any hope of working in the long run.
- I have some goody-goody friends who are really nice, but we don't have anything in common.
- He is so different from all the other boring, goody-goody superheroes.
- At that time, their denial was their belief that they were popular all over the World as a paternalistic big brotherly, goody-goody neighbor.
- Strictly not for the sweet goody-goody music listeners, is this album.
- I didn't want my school friends to think of me as a goody-goody type just because I was a pastor's kid, so I swore and drank and got high with them.
- Moore is Julie, the goody-goody daughter of a reverend in a North Carolina town.
- Despite his goody-goody reputation Deverin was usually the one who either supplied Wolf with the necessary means of his trouble making, or got him out of trouble.
- He looked like the goody-goody boy next door, tall and with a slight build, a little tanned, with wavy brown hair and plain brown eyes.
- The goody-goody story he told - actually, he made it up - about little George cutting down the cherry tree has a nice moral, but it was too good to be true.
- If she had still been a goody-goody she would have been so modest and fainted at the idea.
- My goody-goody reputation would have been gone forever.
- Hattie was the little goody-goody sister, and I was the bad one.
- If fairy tales make you think of simpering goody-goody princesses and men in tights with page boy haircuts, has Ella Enchanted got a surprise for you.
- I continued to hold the smile, feeling like on of those goody-goody teacher's pets.
- Oh, but he's too goody-goody to let her know or do anything about it.
- From high school, I felt that I had the goody-goody thing and the academic thing pretty well locked up, but I was a geek in need of a social life, so I moved into a frat.
- I'm not exactly a troublemaker but then I'm not a goody-goody type student either.
- But that's exactly what Edwards has shown he can't or won't do, for fear of blemishing his goody-goody image.
- Maybe they just like goody-goody sweet entertainment.
Synonyms self-righteous, sanctimonious, pious |