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Do-goodery

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Noun
  1. 1
    The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.

    "2010 By Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee. P.5 Emissions Performance Standards Professor Gibbins: It would do if the EPS was applied properly to biomass. With large-scale biomass at the moment we are seeing some travesties of environmental do-goodery, in fact, because we are seeing 295 MW biomass plants being built..."

Etymology

From do-gooder + -ery.

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