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  • noun Alternative form of gonoph.

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  • noun (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)

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Examples

  • By Tuesday, suggestions that had come in included "America's Insured Grifters," and two using "gonif," the Yiddish word for thief, "All American Gonif" and "American Insurance Gonif."

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • He is a gonif's gonif, and apparently his denial knows no limits.

    Giles Slade: Conrad Black Wriggles Free 2010

  • Nudge the gonif MP for Tatton to prove we are all in this together.

    The nudge is no policy fudge | Francis Maude 2010

  • Here is a gonif who preyed on the weaknesses of his own people and stole money not just from the wealthy, but from charitable organizations.

    David Suissa: Madoff's Redemption 2009

  • Given our steady media diet of killer mullahs, pedophile priests and sexually-confused gonif evangelists, it's unlikely that a few bent Syrian rabbis gift-wrapping kidneys in Prada handbags are going to awaken the Cossacks for an encore of pogroms.

    Eric Dezenhall: "Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State 2009

  • So I stood by the subway exit and listened to the Writer's Almanac podcast, which serendipitously turned out to include a celebration of the birthday of Batman creator Bob Kane that gonif.

    A Shopsin's Breakfast With Sean Howe scottedelman 2009

  • Orbach better not try his shtick at Bike the Drive, the little gonif.

    Dominating the Unwitting: Winning the Five Boro Bike Tour BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Casino Jack, who previously might have consulted the Talmud to justify his role as a gonif with the Indian Tribes, will have plenty of prison time to read the Talmudic commentaries to discover how he went wrong.

    Bull Moose 2006

  • Casino Jack, who previously might have consulted the Talmud to justify his role as a gonif with the Indian Tribes, will have plenty of prison time to read the Talmudic commentaries to discover how he went wrong.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • He's a Detroit-born gonif who's lived in the Southwest for years.

    American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

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