📚 noun • entry_id 45807
do-gooder
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One who advocates a certain course of action, often of political or social concern, and often with the naive conviction of their own moral superiority.
I was hopping along, minding my own business. All of a sudden, up he comes, cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-you…
Prohibition in the United States was an unsuccessful attempt by do-gooders to save people from the dangers of alcohol, whether they wanted to be saved or not.
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