do-gooding
Meanings
adj
- Advocating or performing a supposed morally superior course of action, even in the face of overwhelming experience or factual evidence that its effect is only irrelevant or harmful.
noun
- The actions or attitudes of a do-gooder.
Word forms
Etymology
From do good + -ing.
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