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- noun Alternative form of
gonoph .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
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Examples
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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."
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He is a gonif's gonif, and apparently his denial knows no limits.
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Nudge the gonif MP for Tatton to prove we are all in this together.
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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.
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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
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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
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Orbach better not try his shtick at Bike the Drive, the little gonif.
Dominating the Unwitting: Winning the Five Boro Bike Tour BikeSnobNYC 2008
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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
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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
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He's a Detroit-born gonif who's lived in the Southwest for years.
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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