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gadfly
[ gad-flahy ]
noun
- a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc.
gadfly
/ ˈɡædˌflaɪ /
noun
- any of various large dipterous flies, esp the horsefly, that annoy livestock by sucking their blood
- a constantly irritating or harassing person
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gadfly1
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Example Sentences
But you run the very real risk of being little more than an interesting gadfly.
The result left the Democratic governor, previously best known as a good-government gadfly, with approval ratings in the low 30s.
I asked Child whether he felt a bond with me, based on the picture for my debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly.
But when I said that Gadfly included vicious bullying and teen suicide, he changed tack.
The right-wing gadfly is on the attack again—but this time she's going after her fellow nutjobs.
The gadfly does not immediately sting you; it begins by buzzing in your ears, and you do not at first know what it is.
As I shouldered my load their murmuring voices full of amorous desire stung me like a gadfly.
Then she carried out her revenge by sending an enormous gadfly to torment poor Io, who was still in the form of a heifer.
The trumpeter Gadfly and a number of his relations, besides several Grasshoppers and Bees, were the chief musicians.
She was nagged incessantly by a gadfly of conscience that buzzed in her ears the counsel to tell the police.
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