Gonif (Noun)
Meaning
(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- He's a gonif, he's been embezzling funds from the company for years.
- That gonif of a landlord raised the rent again without warning.
- Stop being such a gonif and pay back the money you owe me.
- The politics of that country are corrupt, it's run by a bunch of gonifs.
- He's a gonif for trying to sell that old car as if it's brand new.