do-gooder
/duːˈɡʊdə
/noun
A well-meaning but unrealistic or interfering philanthropist or reformer.But if so, why should council do-gooders interfere?...
- Politicians and middle-class do-gooders have interfered with the balance of a vulnerable sociological ecosystem.
- The main blame lies with the do-gooders who have interfered by saying you can't smack a child etc.
Derivatives
do-good
- Some professors say the imbalance is natural because progressives tend to gather in do-good professions while conservatives gravitate toward traditional careers in business and finance.
- Others speak of romantic pragmatism as a source of pride and comfort: ‘She had a do-good work ethic toward love.’
- ‘They are true feel-good and do-good books,’ she said.
do-goodery
/ noun ...- An image of wholesome do-goodery, of scrubbed cheeks and Norman Rockwell freshness, rose obediently in my mind.
- All of these books contain the author staggering and swearing his way through the messes of socialism and do-goodery in our country and elsewhere.
- He is a soldier, for whom sending people out to war, to risk life and limb in the service of do-goodery is a prescription for lots of dead soldiers, limitless commitments, and frustrated hopes.
do-gooding
- I explain I'm in the market for some do-gooding.
- One small downside to the couple's do-gooding crusade is the official functions.
- All this do-gooding has apparently restored Hilton's television career.
do-goodism
- This is bargain basement Nietzsche and Foucault, admixed with earnest American do-goodism, that still passes for ‘theory’ in much of the academy.
- And, actually, the roots of this do-goodism are ultimately in New England Puritanism, which had many characteristics associated with today's left.
- A people more fully in touch with, and respectful of, nature than nearly anyone on Earth has borne the brunt of urbanized environmental do-goodism.