Example sentences for: goody-goody

How can you use “goody-goody” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Either the domestic male is portrayed as a goody-goody moral saint or as a guilt-ridden prisoner of the intimate realm.

  • Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."

  • That aside, the rapier is better than the bludgeon--unless, of course, you are a Los Angeles policeman hamstrung by goody-goody regulations made by a bunch of stupid, corrupt, persistently naive politicians who won't let a guy serve and protect.

  • Rock seems to have its own mile-wide streak of goody-goody moralism (with some standouts like Janis Ian, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby who are nothing but).

  • After all, we live , as all smokers realize, in an age of goody-goody moralism.


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