Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages.
noun DEROGATORY
“A well-meaning but unrealistic or interfering philanthropist or reformer.
“they were not going to welcome bossy do-gooders from far away telling them how to run their lives”
Let’s hear it for ‘those who do good’ – not the above.
That’s certainly one – but not the only – definition of the term.
True, Apollo.
The OL definition is missing something. In fact, ‘do-gooders’ is up there with ‘nanny state’. Both are expressions used sneeringly by the political right when they feel their moral standing is under threat, particularly from those seeking greater social and economic justice. Beware the naysayers.
