01 a. Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
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Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.[Colloq.]
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Webster, 1913
Goody-goody
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02 n. A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good in…
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A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo.[Colloq.] Also: goo-goo