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goody-goody

NOUN
  1. a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior
ADJECTIVE
  1. affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous

How To Use goody-goody In A Sentence

  • Then Dave muttered something about her being a goody-goody, they all laughed, and walked away.
  • But that's exactly what Edwards has shown he can't or won't do, for fear of blemishing his goody-goody image.
  • He was always trying to encourage me to bunk off and go hang out in the caff at the park, but I being the goody-goody that I was always refused convinced I'd get caught.
  • David and I never got along very well - I found him to be a jerk most of the time and he found me to be a goody-goody - but he was a good hockey player so we both tried to tolerate each other.
  • 'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? ' Summer Term At St Clare's
  • Ever since your suspension, you've been all goody-goody since then.
  • Keeping cool doesn't make you a wimp or goody-goody - it shows maturity.
  • From high school, I felt that I had the goody-goody thing and the academic thing pretty well locked up, but I was a geek in need of a social life, so I moved into a frat.
  • Strictly not for the sweet goody-goody music listeners, is this album.
  • Marjorie put on that little important air which sometimes made her brothers and sisters call her goody-goody. The Children of Wilton Chase
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