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- noun Plural form of
goody-goody .
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Examples
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(Yeah, I was one of those over-achieving goody-goodies growing up, too.) datingjesus
O.K. Steve Martin rode a bike through Central Park today « Dating Jesus 2009
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She didn't want to be limited, either to musical comedies or goody-goodies; she didn't want them to define her.
Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011
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Nice try trying to normalize and nice-i-fy (yes I know it's a made-up word) vampires, but actually they are much better as scary symbols of our worst desires and fears, not as goody-goodies.
It's Tweet-tastic! zhukora1 2009
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For 13 years the old government had failed to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour in one of London's most dysfunctional neighbourhoods: Downing St. Setting fire to speeches, throwing bricks through policy windows, the Blair Babes goody-goodies lived in terror of the Brown Shirt gang which had cocked a snook at authority.
After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords Michael White in the House of Lords 2010
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But when it comes to keeping up on mortgage payments, Americans are still a bunch of goody-goodies.
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She was in the cool, rebellious, Skateworld crowd, but was respected by the preppies and goody-goodies, too.
Sliding into Home Kendra Wilkinson 2010
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She was in the cool, rebellious, Skateworld crowd, but was respected by the preppies and goody-goodies, too.
Sliding into Home Kendra Wilkinson 2010
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We risk a government of goody-goodies, people who harbor ambitions but no creative thoughts.
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"Hooters-style" restaurant: we goody-goodies would never be caught dead in one of those awful places, would we?
Philocrites: Insightful observations about Gov Sarah Palin. 2008
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Those nice Europeans, purveyors of niceness all round and thorough-going goody-goodies, unlike the barbaric Americans (and British), have been caught out.
Tarred with the same brush? Richard 2006
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