Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being “goody” or priggish; canting morality or piety.
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Examples
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"goodiness," abhorred by every normal girl, it would be impossible to imagine.
A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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When the English degree didn't satisfy her do-goodiness to save lives, Rose jumped back into school and is currently pursing a Bachelor's of Nursing in Central Florida.
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This positive attitude is not a corny let's-all-be-friends goody-goodiness; it's a difficult, brave discipline – and Obama supporters have "lost their bearings" as much as anyone.
Poll: Obama gaining support with key Clinton demographics 2008
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The Russian Batman is an anarchist who resents Superman's twisted do-goodiness (which is frankly something I've always disliked about Superman, too.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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Wanting to suck NWB and I back into your malignignant maelstrom of conjectural goodiness . . .
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Head over to Pat's Fantasy Hotlist for the general goodiness that he posts daily.
Sunday Linkage Mark 2008
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Despite Clark's super nauseating abilities for super-goodiness, the super hot Kristin Kreuk (with those super beautiful eyes!!) and the super wicked Erica Durance (wish she's in the show more often) actually makes the show quite watchable.
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All across this racist shithole that is Canada, our most valuable resource, children, sail through our education system on a cloud of feel goodiness.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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His goody-goodiness is as provocative to my baser nature as a red flag to an Andulasian bull.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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Granny told some pretty stories of when she was a little girl, stories to which the children always listened with real delight, because Gran'ma evidently had been a little girl, from the sort of things she told, and the way she told them, not like some grown-up people who would make their youngers believe that they never cared for anything but lesson-books and goody-goodiness from the moment they were christened.
Terry Or, She ought to have been a Boy Rosa Mulholland 1881
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