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
• Sure, the do-gooders might be able to do good things with extra tax revenue.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
• Carolina is not just a do-gooder.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
• But in a twist, the social media do-gooder gave the boy the money too.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
• Ginny just barely survives on some sad do-gooder part-time job.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
• 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
• His heroic do-gooder gets slightly more to do here, thankfully.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 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
• Tony is the crusading truth-seeker, Mira the naive do-gooder.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The notion of a virtuous do-gooder saving the day is too simplistic for this story.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
• Then one of the crew met a man named Chris, a do-gooder in the community who lost his home to an electrical fire last year.
  — Amy Eskind, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
• 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
• Their Tom and Jerry are each rescued by do-gooders who eventually fall in love.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 22 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• Gleeson’s casual menace and black sense of humor make for an ideal foil to Cage’s quip-cracking do-gooder.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
• 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
• Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
  — Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
• Such a bland do-gooder can’t hold a candle to Slattery’s Leo, a man who happily self-identifies as a bully.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
• 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
• This may seem paradoxical, instances of Jewish do-gooders acting on behalf of others.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
• The do-gooders care about real issues like public health, education and the environment.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
• Bek Mitchell-Kidd works in communications for nonprofits and do-gooders.
  — Bek Mitchell-Kidd, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• The shift away from reliability suggests a sly reversal of sympathies from the artist to the do-gooder sibling.
  — Elaine Blair, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• The whole project alienated these West Virginians from government—from do-gooders and virtue-signalers.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• But his do-gooder deeds and mental health problems made the workers inside those trendy bars afraid to speak out about their experiences of an allegedly toxic workplace.
  — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
• 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