nudnik

Example Sentences

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He never stupidly based gender in language alone—like all those nerdy post-structuralist nudniks who infest academe.

From Salon

Alice is a nudnik and a connoisseur and a troubled person.

From The New Yorker

Painted in glazes of vibrant, greenish yellow scrawled over a black surface are words like kibitzer and kvetcher; nudnik and nebbish.

From New York Times

The difference is that Knoxville's nudniks volunteer for the slaughter.

From Time

They will know that her feud with the deranged nudnik Kelly Bensimon put her on the side of right and good.

From New York Times