Examples of do-gooder in a Sentence
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The protagonist wasn’t a fearless do-gooder but a vulnerable, tortured warrior whose sole purpose was to save the soul of her lover, Dillion, after he had been tortured and killed by the Northmen.
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Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
So skeptics may chortle at do-gooder liberals’ NIMBY uproar as being hoisted on their own petards, so to speak.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 May 2024
Started in 1948 as a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the OB Kiwanis Club, the local do-gooder group hasn’t skipped a festival.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
For ‘Abbott Elementary’s’ Chris Perfetti, ‘tragic circumstances’ are comedy gold: As Jacob, the liberal white do-gooder at a West Philadelphia elementary school, Perfetti has become a fan favorite and meme king.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Enjoy Craft Beers Sip on local brews at Starr Hill, the second oldest craft brewery in Virginia; do-gooders should order The Love, a light wheat beer that gives back to Lynchburg charities.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2024
The whole project alienated these West Virginians from government—from do-gooders and virtue-signalers.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
Highlighting their bedrock principles, ideological debates, strained bonds and creative collaborative combat, the show recognizes that what makes these do-gooders so compelling is the way in which their personal and political concerns combine and clash until the two are inextricably intertwined.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
So skeptics may chortle at do-gooder liberals’ NIMBY uproar as being hoisted on their own petards, so to speak.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 May 2024
Started in 1948 as a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the OB Kiwanis Club, the local do-gooder group hasn’t skipped a festival.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
For ‘Abbott Elementary’s’ Chris Perfetti, ‘tragic circumstances’ are comedy gold: As Jacob, the liberal white do-gooder at a West Philadelphia elementary school, Perfetti has become a fan favorite and meme king.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Enjoy Craft Beers Sip on local brews at Starr Hill, the second oldest craft brewery in Virginia; do-gooders should order The Love, a light wheat beer that gives back to Lynchburg charities.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2024
The whole project alienated these West Virginians from government—from do-gooders and virtue-signalers.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
Highlighting their bedrock principles, ideological debates, strained bonds and creative collaborative combat, the show recognizes that what makes these do-gooders so compelling is the way in which their personal and political concerns combine and clash until the two are inextricably intertwined.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Do-gooder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/do-gooder. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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