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
• 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.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2024
• Tony is the crusading truth-seeker, Mira the naive do-gooder.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• 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
• His heroic do-gooder gets slightly more to do here, thankfully.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bek Mitchell-Kidd works in communications for nonprofits and do-gooders.
  — Bek Mitchell-Kidd, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
• The principals — soi-disant do-gooders who are clearly objects of satire, or should be — are somehow also functioning as point-of-view characters.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• This may seem paradoxical, instances of Jewish do-gooders acting on behalf of others.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
• Whitney first went into the HGTV show with two goals: to make a killing in local real estate, and to publicly establish a do-gooder identity that’s in sharp contrast to the reputation of her slumlord parents.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• Waffles points out that no community in history has undergone radical change to please a government or a group of foreign do-gooders.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• The actor soon became known for his roles playing a do-gooder, including several films as a police officer, and also for playing fiercely patriotic characters.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• Stabs of social-media satire — targeting both Nikki’s do-gooder wellness brand and Reuben’s exhaustively hashtagged wedding plans — are amusing but easy, glossing over the deeper human weaknesses underpinning them.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• This included evidence suggesting the former crypto mogul cultivated a humble, do-gooder persona that obscured an appetite for luxury and a disdain for colleagues, followers and policymakers.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024