What's the difference between goody and hero?

Goody


Definition:

  • (n.) A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
  • (n.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
  • (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Good mental health brings with it a whole lot of goodies in Santa’s stocking, because after all, physical fitness and wealth are meaningless without it.
  • (2) Barratt asked if he'd like to help him create a modern-day Goodies .
  • (3) But in the past year one towered above the others as if not the biggest then the most extraordinary media story of the year – the death of Jade Goody.
  • (4) From a red box packed with goodies for the old, George Osborne also pulled one policy affecting the other end of the age spectrum which, it must be hoped, will ultimately prove as important as his sweeping pensions proposals.
  • (5) He is likely to announce some goodies in his March budget to support colleagues in both fights, but within the current spending straitjacket.
  • (6) It was probably the seminal boxing match of all time, the dramatic unities perfectly in place: perceived goodie v baddie, impossible odds, totally unforeseen outcome.
  • (7) Oh goody – cheaper driving, and more cars on the roads.
  • (8) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
  • (9) But the neat side-parting isn't the goody-goody look it once was.
  • (10) According to reports , the Goody wedding issue of Richard Desmond's celebrity gossip magazine sold 1.8 million copies, more than three times its average circulation of 508,504 in the second half of 2008.
  • (11) Major role The judge told one of them, Douglas Gordon Goody, that during the trial he had noted signs that he was capable of inspiring the admiration of the other accused.
  • (12) It defended its tribute issue and revealed that it had contacted Goody's family since publication and that they understood the tribute issue and viewed it as being "very kind".
  • (13) Most of the Labour team now agree this involves taking risks, and a collation of small-bore policy goodies will not do.
  • (14) Viewers have contacted the regulator over what they saw as alleged racism by housemates Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara towards Shilpa.
  • (15) In response to media inquiries, Fifa’s ethics committee confirmed that 65 of the watches had been handed out in goodie bags during the Congress that preceded the World Cup.
  • (16) In broadcasting Jade Goody's tirades, Endemol and Channel 4 were not condoning her behaviour, but affording the public the opportunity to evaluate her behaviour alongside that of other housemates and vote to decide who should be allowed to stay in the house.
  • (17) With our politics increasingly polarised , it saddens me to see my students being initiated – deliberately or not – into an essentially Manichaean view of politics, with a checklist of “goodies” (leftists, trade unions, Corbyn) and “baddies” (Tories, Brexiteers, anyone who uses the phrase British values without irony).
  • (18) magazine publishing a "tribute issue" to the terminally ill Jade Goody while she is still alive, the Press Complaints Commission will not investigate the complaints.
  • (19) April-May 2006 Mulcaire hacks into phones of John Prescott, Boris Johnson, Tessa Jowell, Gwyneth Paltrow, George Michael, Vanessa Feltz and Jade Goody.
  • (20) Clifford – who has made millions looking after clients as varied as Frank Sinatra, Freddie Starr, Jade Goody, Rebecca Loos and Kerry Katona – argued that there needs to be a clear "halfway house" between protecting privacy and freedom of speech, and newspapers should be forced to justify publishing stories about people's personal lives.

Hero


Definition:

  • (n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
  • (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
  • (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (2) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
  • (3) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
  • (4) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
  • (5) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
  • (6) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (7) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
  • (8) Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , has a mysterious hero, John Rokesmith, who turns out to be someone different from the person we were told he was.
  • (9) At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.
  • (10) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
  • (11) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
  • (12) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
  • (13) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
  • (14) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
  • (15) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
  • (16) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
  • (17) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
  • (18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
  • (19) Reagan's youthful hero was FDR – another optimist, albeit a far steelier one –  who turned the federal government into the agent of recovery from the Great Depression and of victory in World War II.
  • (20) "The FA decision-makers can become the heroes that protected the national game.