as in old maid
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Recent Examples of Goody Two-shoes
China isn’t doing this to be Goody Two-shoes.
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Have fun biking in the rain, Goody Two-shoes!
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Have fun biking in the rain, Goody Two-shoes!
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Goody Two-shoes
Noun
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March 2026 Prose's debut novel is centered around Molly Gray, a 25-year-old maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, a five-star boutique hotel, who has an obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette.—
Angeline Jane Bernabe,
ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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These ajummas, these old maids, with their curly hair, were actually doing this!—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This approach isn’t about throwing a wet blanket on the festivities of the season.—
Monitor staff,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 Dec. 2025
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Both dynamics are pretty well-worn from the first four seasons of the series, and there isn't much value to turning both Hopper and Joyce into wet blankets at this moment of ultimate crisis.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
27 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The biggest party poopers recently have been Croatia, another European nation who finished second and third at the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 respectively.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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But in their quest to make history, the guests turned into party poopers.—
The San Diego Union Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Goody Two-shoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Goody%20Two-shoes. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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