no-goodnik

or no·good·nik

[ noh-good-nik ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a no-good person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of no-goodnik¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; no-good + -nik

Example Sentences

Or, at least, the creators of campaign ads, yard signs and electoral paraphernalia believe that it works: American voters care about the economy, health care and education, but they also care, deeply, that those issues are taken up by a man who can change the oil of a vintage Corvette after vigorously beating a no-goodnik behind the garage.

From Washington Post

That person, however, is generally a no-goodnik, a person who’s down on their luck and prospects, not the most famous gamer in the world.

From The Verge

“I Am the Number 13” has a sound almost like a metronome, and a chorus of rueful voices; Mulcahy sounds like a friendly no-goodnik.

From The New Yorker

It doesn’t matter if the site wasn’t meant as a No-Goodnik Intellectual Kill List one day after Richard Spencer and his Jungen screeched Heil Trump.

From Slate

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” which is billed as an “electropop opera” and comes to Broadway next September, lasts only two hours and adapts just one bit from the novel, the story of Natasha’s naïve infatuation with the rakish no-goodnik Anatole Kuragin.

From The New Yorker