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goody-goodiness

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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

  • His goody-goodiness is as provocative to my baser nature as a red flag to an Andulasian bull.

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • 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

  • I have no pretension to become a saint, all that I desire is to attain the intermediate state, between goody-goodiness and sanctity.

    En Route 1877

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