good deeds
Helpful actions taken
Good deeds are acts of kindness, charity, or moral virtue—things done to help others or improve the world.
The phrase carries a slightly old-fashioned or religious tone, evoking scouts earning badges or believers storing up spiritual credit: No good deed goes unpunished.
In casual speech, people more often say nice things or helping out.
- paying it forwardRepaying kindness to strangers
- civic engagementActive citizenship in community
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- honestyTruthfulness, sincerity
selflessness · golden rule · moral compass · humanitarianism · integrity · mitzvah · mentorship · advocacy · benevolence · philanthropy · altruism · volunteerism · disaster relief · lending a hand · helping hand · purity · compassion · charity
- Wholesome thingskindness, love, family, friendship, honesty
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
- karmacomeuppance, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around, karmic cycle
- Islamic ethicsihsan, moral virtues, ethical conduct, birr, divine law
- Jewish charitygemilut chasadim, alms, charitable giving, tikkun olam, loving-kindness
- Jewish ethicsmitzvot, tikkun olam, Torah study, righteousness, ethical conduct
good deedswrongdoing
Unethical or illegal action
misdeeds · atrocities · cruelty · harm · villainy
good deedscrimes
Unlawful acts
criminal acts · misdemeanors · offenses · felonies · transgressions
good deedssins
Violations of moral law
transgressions · iniquities · trespasses · abominations · vices