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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Regardless, the new hard-line stance on playing time was a wet blanket tossed onto an overachieving team.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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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
Noun
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But none of the Premier League’s refs or growing cohort of specialist VARs revel in the role of party pooper.—
Graham Scott,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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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 Apr. 2026.
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