do-gooding
做好事,做善事,做好事,做事
Definitions
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- : earnestly doing good; focusing on humanitarian causes in a naive and often ineffectual way.
Examples
When they thought about Lewis, what struck the players most was that he never acted like a do-gooder.
A bunch of books and a TV movie, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., followed.
First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.
If someone wants to dismiss this as do-goodism, fine, but it has real world effects.
That contestant also happens to be Cuba Gooding, Jr., Oscar-winner for Jerry Maguire and major hockey fan.
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.
His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.
“But it certainly was a great to-do,” murmured Jessie, as she tried to see what the boys were doing.
Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.