Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of asking alms formerly in use in England, and in one form still continued. See the first extract.
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Examples
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So that's why liberals, unless they can devise a means by which their do-gooding is paid for exclusively by people willing to do so, should always cave – doing otherwise is tyranny.
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Much of this goes for the underclass of whites too and it amuses me that behind much of the do-gooding is a latent racism so ingrained that it takes a Boris Johnson to detect it.
Archive 2007-08-05 Newmania 2007
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Much of this goes for the underclass of whites too and it amuses me that behind much of the do-gooding is a latent racism so ingrained that it takes a Boris Johnson to detect it.
Spit It Out !! Newmania 2007
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St. Thomas's Day, 21st December, is still at Otterbourne held as the day for "gooding," when each poor house-mother can demand sixpence from the well-to-do towards her Christmas dinner.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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