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UK
/ɡˈædflaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈɡædˌfɫaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡædˌfɫaɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a persistently annoying person
- any of various large flies that annoy livestock
How To Use gadfly In A Sentence
- How grey and narrow the arts world will seem without his gadfly brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
- I am not a developer gadfly and my philosophy with films and developers has always been to stay with things that work well.
- Being a gadfly is certainly a role, and occasionally a helpful one. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
- Baseball, by which I mean baseball, lowercase b, has lost a penetrating mind of great discernment, a gadfly who would not be dissuaded from his job as he saw it even when the Commissioner himself phoned to tell him to cut it out.
- Socrates' preferred analogy for his own role in the city was that of a gadfly, who lit upon his fellow citizens and sought to sting them into a healthy state of intellectual wakefulness.
- I have always considered him sort of a Socratic gadfly.
- Btw, searching for the word "banalization" to check if it existed same in english as in spanish, I encountered this article gadfly. igc.org / liberal / genius. htm The J Curve
- Q: You've been called a gadfly, a consumer activist. A1 HOME PAGE Top Stories 1
- History shows that once in a while even a so-called gadfly has been able to effect change. Clone Cindy's Pelosi Strategy In Your Backyard
- She was tormented by a furious little gadfly that bit her mercilessly, though she flicked her tail this way and that.