How to Use do-gooder in a Sentence

do-gooder

noun
  • In short, let marines be marines, and help do-gooders do good.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • But in a twist, the social media do-gooder gave the boy the money too.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But in a twist, the social media do-gooder gave the boy the money too.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • One of them had to rescue the mom from a pack of deranged do-gooders, who told her adoption was evil.
    — Joy Woodson, Parents, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
    — Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
    — Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2024
  • This is, of course, a ruse to put Rick in the same room with Jim, who, according to his mother on her deathbed, killed his do-gooder dad.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Tony is the crusading truth-seeker, Mira the naive do-gooder.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Gone is the campy do-gooder; she’s been modernized, made savvy to the social and political tenor of the current day.
    — Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Scientific American, 9 June 2025
  • But as is so often the case with do-gooders in possession of shallow thought processes, the joke was on Pierre.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • To be sure, taking urban kids out for a gulp of fresh country air has almost become a do-gooder’s cliché.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • At the beach, while other tourists gather for sunset and surfers catch glassy lefts, do-gooders dig holes, adding plant defender to the frontline, one by one.
    — Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
  • His heroic do-gooder gets slightly more to do here, thankfully.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Ban is a rarity, a pragmatic do-gooder with a sublime aesthetic touch, whose few duds are mostly homes for the rich.
    — Curbed Editors, Curbed, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Ban is a rarity, a pragmatic do-gooder with a sublime aesthetic touch, whose few duds are mostly homes for the rich.
    — Curbed Editors, Curbed, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The desire to look spiffy seems to have spread beyond these supposedly do-gooder labels, such as Loro Piana and Cucinelli.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Kit Harington is hanging up his hat as being typecast as do-gooders.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2024
  • So why, then, do politicians, nonprofits and even do-gooder corporations love tiny homes so much?
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Friedman’s voice-over reminds us that inequality has been a topic of human concern for hundreds of years, courtesy of do-gooders who claim that the wealth of the rich rests on the exploitation of the poor.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The whole project alienated these West Virginians from government—from do-gooders and virtue-signalers.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But several people who worked with Spiro rolled their eyes at his attempts to frame himself as primarily a do-gooder.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The Vanity Fair report comes at a crucial time for Harry and Meghan’s efforts to make a success of themselves as media moguls, entrepreneurs and global do-gooders.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Chris Evans was best known for playing the ultimate do-gooder Captain America, so his turn as a villain surprised Marvel fans.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Notably, the furry do-gooder helped raise $1 million for charity and the donation of more than 1 million bowls of food for homeless animals.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The cynic’s instinct is to question this cohort and their do-gooder intentions, which seem fundamentally at odds with shilling merch.
    — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Dawn, after killing her boyfriend, seeks comfort in a do-gooder gynecologist (also played by Karl) who reveals himself to be a predator.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Bek Mitchell-Kidd works in communications for nonprofits and do-gooders.
    — Bek Mitchell-Kidd, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But a committee of do-gooders, with Victorian ideas about feminine purity, doubt that a young girl could have committed such a brutal act.
    — Bailey Seybolt, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025

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