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do-gooding

a. (context derogatory English) Advocating or performing a supposed morally superior course of action, even in the face of overwhelming experience or factual evidence that its effect is only irrelevant or harmful. n. (context derogatory English) The actions or attitudes of a do-gooder.

Usage examples of "do-gooding".

Not a do-gooding bossy spinster, but a fulfilled career woman of undoubted power.

Just when he thought he'd got her pegged as a do-gooding social butterfly she tossed in a polysyllabic from an Economics Major.