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gadfly

Synonyms

Noun

1. pest

2. blighter, cuss, pesterer, tormentor, tormenter, persecutor, fly

Usage
Gadfly Bites 5/13/26—Case for the defense - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Harvard’s ‘Annoying Socratic Gadfly’ Takes a Victory Lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gadfly Bites 5/11/26—The high cost of desperation - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Ribbon Cutting for Gadfly Ledgers in Historic Downtown Manassas - Prince William Living
Subject: Weekend Reads: Harvard’s 'annoying Socratic gadfly' takes a victory lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vinay Prasad, oncology’s gadfly-turned-CBER-director, will leave FDA (again) - The Cancer Letter
Gadfly Bites 5/8/26—“Inside” the echo chamber, maybe - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Mayor Jones cuts off City Hall gadfly over anti-gay remarks - San Antonio Express-News
Small Investors Fear SEC Will Drive Corporate Gadflies to Extinction - Bloomberg.com
Gadfly starts GoFundMe for hospitalized band member - The Georgia Straight
EMS gadfly or journalist? Brattleboro officials debate First Amendment protections - WCAX
Gadfly Bites 4/24/26—Some celebrations are different than others - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
When helping hurts: Rethinking special education accommodations - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 4/20/26—Good ideas never go out of style - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
What we’re reading: May 1, 2026 - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Beware the unintended consequences of state screen time limits - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Cheers and Jeers: May 1, 2026 - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 4/17/26—The calculus of budget deficits - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 4/13/26—Seeing into the future - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 4/15/26—Exemplary disasters - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
'Pain in the rear' NJ gadfly will oversee farm program he criticized - Morris County NJ News | Daily Record
Xi Jinping says Irish novel The Gadfly sustained him during traumatic teenage years - The Irish Times
Festivals & Events: PISS, Wait//Less, Gadfly, more to play Girls To The Front Fest Vancouver - Punknews.org
How an obscure Irish novel got China’s leader through his teens - The Times
The Irish Times view on The Gadfly: Ireland’s little-known best-seller - The Irish Times
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Moving K–12 programs to the Department of Labor is neither smart nor conservative - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The Gladiator & the Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
Martin and Xi say they read it as teens - but what is The Gadfly and who is its Cork-born author? - thejournal.ie
Arousing, persuading, and reproaching: How Gadfly is promoting philosophical engagement, one conversation at a time - Columbia Daily Spectator
David Quinn: Micheál Martin is no gadfly – and that’s why China rolled out the red carpet - The Irish Independent
Gadfly Are Soundtracking Resistance With a Defiant Spirit - readrange.com
Inside the mind of Downey’s most notorious Gadfly - The Downey Patriot
Hank Burchard, Post reporter and newsroom gadfly, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
A better way to measure school quality - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Ad Reinhardt: My gadfly and my friend - The Brooklyn Rail
Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education - ASU News
Gadfly Bar: The Tucked-Away Lounge Drawing A Crowd In New York City - Forbes
The Gadfly Manifesto - Psychiatric Times
Book Review: "The Year of the Gadfly" - Columbia University
A Love Letter to an Old-Guard Council Gadfly - The Silicon Valley Voice
The latest buzz: The Gadfly returns after 26-year dormancy - The Vermont Cynic
Global spatial ecology of three closely-related gadfly petrels - Nature
Rand rides again as GOP gadfly - Punchbowl News
Utah political ‘gadfly’ George Zinn arrested, released after Charlie Kirk shooting - KPCW
The therapist and the gadfly - Princeton University Press
Community Matters: Gadfly’s recall crusade threatens city government - Petaluma Argus-Courier
Savvy’s Anomaly Detection Uses AI To Analyze Engines - Aviation International News
Our Opinion: First Amendment protects gadfly's offensive banner - springhopeenterprise.com
Word of the Day: gadfly (Published 2022) - The New York Times
George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’ - The Salt Lake Tribune
Dena Driscoll: Gadfly for Good | Generation Change Philly - The Philadelphia Citizen
The Arrival of the Gadfly: A New Era of Accounting in Manassas - Prince William Living
George Zinn, Utah man detained in viral footage after Charlie Kirk assassination, is well-known political ‘gadfly’ - New York Post
Old man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk told cops he did it to 'draw attention from real shooter': report - New York Post
Queer erasure and representation in Gadfly - Goshen College
Liz Cheney, the GOP’s Unshakeable Gadfly  - Washington Monthly
The Gadfly - City Journal
‘American Gadfly’ Review: A Candid Candidacy (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Special Report: LA's City Hall 'Gadflies' - KFI AM 640
A conservative legal gadfly faces the music - Politico
L.A. County got a restraining order against a foul-mouthed gadfly. He denies making threats - Los Angeles Times
Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly - Classic FM
Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic - The Economist
The Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
"Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens - vocal.media
Statistical Plotting with Julia: Gadfly.jl - towardsdatascience.com
Performers get into character for the debut of "The Great Gadfly" | Carson City’s Trusted News Source Since 1865 - Nevada Appeal
James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007) - The Brooklyn Rail
Downey gadfly tests the boundaries of free speech - The Downey Patriot
Answering Randi Weingarten - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Attorney to Hippie to Beloved Literary Gadfly. Steven Gilbar? Yep. - Montecito Journal
James Clarke Five - Gadfly Groove (Favourite Recordings) - The Big Takeover
Hamish At Home: Vogue’s Gadfly Comes in For a Hard Landing - Vogue
Gadflies, Unite! These People for Governor, or Congress, or Whatever - Colorado Pols
Coming out as a gadfly: 8 years of blogging for The Mennonite - Anabaptist World
Audience Members Get in on the Act in ‘The Great Gadfly’ - Carson Now
You Can Be A Good Athenian And A Gadfly | John Halstead - Patheos
SEU: Raising questions leads to better thinkers, closer relationships - The Daily Nebraskan
Man Falsely Confessed to Kirk Shooting to Help Assassin Escape, Police Say - GV Wire
A Gadfly in Combat: The Rhetoric of Austen Ivereigh - OnePeterFive
Swatting the Impish Gadfly – Jesse Russell - Law & Liberty
Bacon loses lone GOP primary challenger, gains another in Omaha-area House race - Nebraska Examiner
The Gadfly and the Grinder: A Parable for Hillary - The Atlantic
American Gadfly - Official Trailer - IMDb
BC Professor Reggie Williams hosts final Gadfly Cafe session of the Fall semester in the Levan Center - The Renegade Rip
Q&A: Alfredo Jaar, SCAD speaker and global gadfly, on "recuperating the power of images" - ARTS ATL
Documentary Review: New York teens run a campaign for president — “American Gadfly” - rogersmovienation.com
Tempe drops case against city gadfly - Ahwatukee Foothills News
Barbara Massey: Goleta Gadfly - The Santa Barbara Independent
Punk band Gadfly to play reunion show - Journal & Courier
Banned Books Week? Try “First Amendment Week” instead - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Classical New Release: 'Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Gadfly"' - Interlochen Public Radio
Opinion: Celebrate the Gadflies of San Diego, Schooled in Reading Fine Print - Times of San Diego
Parliamentary Gadfly Loses His Post - Science | AAAS
Gadfly Lawyer for Gilgo Beach Families Courts Cameras and Tipsters (Published 2023) - The New York Times
The Gadfly Letter Apostolate - Catholic World Report
Sharon Anderson, a colorful thorn in the political eye, dies at 86 - Pioneer Press
Gadfly’s required reading - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
A Gadfly in the Pinot Noir (Published 2011) - The New York Times
Taking curriculum implementation seriously - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'gadfly'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
gasfly,   gaddly,   adfly,   gadgly,   gadlfy,   fadfly,   gadflu,   gafdly,   gaffly,   gafly,   ggadfly,   gadf;y,   gaadfly,   gadfyl,   gadffly,   gdafly,   gsdfly,   agdfly,   gdfly,   gaddfly,   gadflyy,   gadfky,   gadflly,   gadly,   gadflt,   hadfly,   gadfy,   gadfl
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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