The word 'doings' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a plural noun that refers to actions or activities that someone is engaged in. You can use 'doings' when talking about events, actions or behaviors that have taken place or are currently happening. For example: - The children's mischievous doings kept their parents on their toes. - The doings of the new government are being closely monitored by the media. - The book club members shared their latest literary doings at their monthly meeting. - I heard about your doings at the party last night. You were the life of the dance floor.
"Instead of trying to change personality, we should give children fresh lenses through which to view their daily doings.
One can look at today's disclosures about the doings in the office of Margaret Thatcher and wonder whether poor Gordon Brown got the roughest end of a very rough stick.
Of course, no label was stitched to his buttocks to say "Old England", as might once have been the case in a Punch cartoon, but the implication was plain enough, and faintly surprising in a society that frowns, at least officially, on national stereotypes and stories that relate the doings of a Welshman, an Irishman, etc.
It is the devil's doings, full of hidden additives that manufacturers aren't obliged to declare, made for speed, economy and shelf-life rather than flavour, and potentially hairier than any of us might like.
The principal actors involved are staying mum, though the dozens of lawsuits and official investigations now under way should eventually shine a fiery spotlight on Enron's murky doings.
Until this week, the magnitude of the investigation into AIG's doings by the SEC and Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney-general, was evident only in the stream of high-level executives being shown the door.
It has worked hard to monitor citizens' internet doings, and block or filter content it does not like.
He claims, implausibly, to have known nothing of his closest adviser's doings.
Adam Zamoyski, whose previous book, "1812", told the tale of the French emperor's disastrous Russian campaign, now turns his attention to the victors' efforts to reconstruct Europe after his defeat.His book is old-fashioned, impressively detailed diplomatic history; it deals with the fate of nations and dynasties and the doings of emperors, kings and princes.
People of a less combative disposition will gather on the Ellipse to listen to speeches from assorted celebrities and enthusiasts.These events will mark the culmination of weeks of smaller doings.
Some of this, oddly enough, comes from James Bond films, by which the doings of a wildly fictionalised MI6 agent have seized the world's imagination.
