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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as goody.

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Examples

  • Fuck love and relationship and all that goody-good bullshit that blows up in your face and leaves you hurting behind a motherfucka and his lies.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Fuck love and relationship and all that goody-good bullshit that blows up in your face and leaves you hurting behind a motherfucka and his lies.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Fuck love and relationship and all that goody-good bullshit that blows up in your face and leaves you hurting behind a motherfucka and his lies.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Fuck love and relationship and all that goody-good bullshit that blows up in your face and leaves you hurting behind a motherfucka and his lies.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • The same is true of the tritely written Christian goody-good, played by Amanda Bynes, who serves as Olive's nemesis.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Easy A Marshall Fine 2010

  • She follows the same style, but inverts the whole goody-good quality.

    The Collector: Sudarshan Shetty 2010

  • The same is true of the tritely written Christian goody-good, played by Amanda Bynes, who serves as Olive's nemesis.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Easy A 2010

  • And he's kind of a wimp, a goody-good who grows a spine exactly when you expect him to.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Red Hill Marshall Fine 2010

  • "You got no call pretendin 'that you're all goody-good."

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • When this old world of ours becomes really moral we may be content to read so-called stories in which goody-good characters parade their own virtues and interlard their ordinary speech with prayers and hymns and scriptural quotations; but while a tithe of the present sin and crime exists our fiction will reflect them with the other phases of our daily life.

    Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett

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