Example Sentences

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Further betraying my naïveté, I asked Cook if it was legal in Alaska to give a gun to any anonymous nogoodnik who’d entered a raffle at a chili contest.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2022

He faces off with another handsome nogoodnik: the dandyish Lando Calrissian, played with great style by Donald Glover.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2018

Sidney Falco, a name that replaced Sammy Glick as the slick nogoodnik par excellence, is a pretty boy on the make — all hustle, no morals, and with a line of patter like petty larceny.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2010

Rocky and Bullwinkle's cartoon nemesis must be grateful that Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is carrying on the great tradition of Russian nogoodnik.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only partly.

From Time Magazine Archive