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gonif

n. (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) [syn: goniff, ganef, ganof]

Usage examples of "gonif".

In fact I will do it already, except I decide I should patent the phone booth first, and I bring the idea to that gonif Goldfobber, which I now regret.

Israeli gonif who had his office on 10th Avenue, getting a ten-percent commission on each piece of soon-to-discolor crap he unloaded, his assigned route running from 125th Street in Harlem to Washington Heights-try to earn a living wage that way, bro.

But these artists you're describing, the self-promoting crybabies what are intentionally being shlockmeisters and gonifs, they dream the new American dream.