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Answer for the clue "Drawing off card shows do-gooder ", 14 letters:
bleeding heart

Word definitions for bleeding heart in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including: 2 # ''Lamprocapnos spectabilis'' (formerly ''Dicentra spectabilis''), a popular garden plant with arching sprays ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Bleeding Heart " (sometimes called " (My) Bleeding Heart ") is a song written and recorded by American blues musician Elmore James in 1961. Considered "among the greatest of James' songs", "Bleeding Heart" was later popularized by Jimi Hendrix , who recorded ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers [syn: lyreflower , lyre-flower , Dicentra spectabilis ] someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of flowering plant, so called from 1690s. In the sense of "person excessively sympathetic" (especially toward those the speaker deems not to deserve it) is attested by 1951, but said by many to have been popularized with reference to liberals (especially ...

Usage examples of bleeding heart.

Because tomorrow every bleeding heart in this town is going to be screaming for you guys's blood.

Oskar turned away from the bleeding heart in the nave, hastened from the first station of the Cross, where Jesus takes up the Cross, to the seventh station where he falls for the second time beneath its weight, and on to the high altar over which hung the second sculptured image of Jesus.

But I was unmoved and crushed his still-bleeding heart under my heel.

The district attorney, representing the conservation forces of the nation, was a former athlete who could not in the slightest degree be termed a bleeding heart, while the defense attorney was a famous outdoors man, well known as a hunter and a rancher.

Marcus will win this fight because you are a fucking bleeding heart.