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do-goodery

do-goodery noun: the supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.

Noun

do-goodery (plural do-gooderies)

  1. The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.
    • 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...

Forms of do-goodery

pluraldo-gooderies

Origin of do-goodery

From do-gooder + -ery.

Questions about do-goodery

What does do-goodery mean?
Do-goodery means the supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.
What part of speech is do-goodery?
Do-goodery is a noun.
What is the plural of do-goodery?
The plural of do-goodery is do-gooderies.

Words near do-goodery in the dictionary

  1. do-funny
  2. do-gooder
  3. do-gooderies
  4. do-gooderism
  5. do-gooders
  6. do-goodery
  7. do-gooding
  8. do-goodism
  9. do-goodisms
  10. do-hickey
  11. do-hickeys

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