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gadfly

Synonyms

Noun

1. pest

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

Usage
Gadfly Bites 6/24/26—Churchillian advice - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Jean Ziegler, Swiss Gadfly Who Provoked His Countrymen, Dies at 92 - The New York Times
Gadfly Bites 6/22/26—The urban/rural non-divide - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Harvard’s ‘Annoying Socratic Gadfly’ Takes a Victory Lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ribbon Cutting for Gadfly Ledgers in Historic Downtown Manassas - Prince William Living
Small Investors Fear SEC Will Drive Corporate Gadflies to Extinction - Bloomberg.com
Vinay Prasad, oncology’s gadfly-turned-CBER-director, will leave FDA (again) - The Cancer Letter
Environmental drivers of gadfly petrel vagrancy in the Southwest Pacific - Gorta - 2026 - Ibis - Wiley Online Library
Gadfly Bites 6/15/26—From squishy emotion to cold hard contractual obligation - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Mayor Jones cuts off City Hall gadfly over anti-gay remarks - San Antonio Express-News
EMS gadfly or journalist? Brattleboro officials debate First Amendment protections - WCAX
Gadfly starts GoFundMe for hospitalized band member - The Georgia Straight
Shostakovich The Gadfly. Five Days - Five Nights - gramophone.co.uk
New Zealand leads protection of world’s rarest seabirds: Media release 31 March 2026 - Department of Conservation
"The Last Gadfly" - An Afternoon with Ed Jacobs - Interview - YouTube
Discussion on City's Acceptance of Free Building - Herald/Review Media
Gadfly Bites 6/17/26—Nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Subject: Weekend Reads: Harvard’s 'annoying Socratic gadfly' takes a victory lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gadfly Bites 6/12/26—Complicated matters - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Traditional public schools aren’t open to everyone - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
'Pain in the rear' NJ gadfly will oversee farm program he criticized - Morris County NJ News | Daily Record
Festivals & Events: PISS, Wait//Less, Gadfly, more to play Girls To The Front Fest Vancouver - Punknews.org
The Gladiator & the Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
Xi Jinping says Irish novel The Gadfly sustained him during traumatic teenage years - The Irish Times
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
Martin and Xi say they read it as teens - but what is The Gadfly and who is its Cork-born author? - The Journal
Arousing, persuading, and reproaching: How Gadfly is promoting philosophical engagement, one conversation at a time - Columbia Daily Spectator
The Gadfly Manifesto - Psychiatric Times
Inside the mind of Downey’s most notorious Gadfly - The Downey Patriot
Gadfly Are Soundtracking Resistance With a Defiant Spirit - readrange.com
Ad Reinhardt: My gadfly and my friend - The Brooklyn Rail
Project GADfly update - AOPA
Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education - ASU News
Global spatial ecology of three closely-related gadfly petrels - Nature
Hank Burchard, Post reporter and newsroom gadfly, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
Gadfly Bar: The Tucked-Away Lounge Drawing A Crowd In New York City - Forbes
A Love Letter to an Old-Guard Council Gadfly - The Silicon Valley Voice
A Gadfly and the Navy - The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Rand rides again as GOP gadfly - Punchbowl News
Book Review: "The Year of the Gadfly" - Columbia University
Fiction Review: “The Year of the Gadfly” by Jennifer Miller - lit.newcity.com
The therapist and the gadfly - Princeton University Press
Utah political ‘gadfly’ George Zinn arrested, released after Charlie Kirk shooting - KPCW
Savvy Aviation unveils AI-powered aircraft anomaly detection tool - General Aviation News
A conservative legal gadfly faces the music - Politico
The Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
The Arrival of the Gadfly: A New Era of Accounting in Manassas - Prince William Living
Word of the Day: gadfly (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Gadfly Bites 10/19/20 – Catching up with the clips - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Opinion: Gadflies, free speech and the future of civic dialogue here in Los Gatos - Los Gatan
‘American Gadfly’ Review: A Candid Candidacy (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Farewell to a gadfly - The River Reporter
Revealed: Prominent left-wing gadfly Noam Chomsky 'in regular contact' with Epstein - Alternet
Dena Driscoll: Gadfly for Good | Generation Change Philly - The Philadelphia Citizen
Swatting the Impish Gadfly – Jesse Russell - Law & Liberty
George Zinn, Utah man detained in viral footage after Charlie Kirk assassination, is well-known political ‘gadfly’ - New York Post
Book Review: Christopher Hitchens — Final Stings From the Gadfly - The Arts Fuse
Washam’s Law, Part 3 of 3: Gadfly in charge - Tacoma News Tribune
Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly - Classic FM
James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007) - The Brooklyn Rail
L.A. County got a restraining order against a foul-mouthed gadfly. He denies making threats - Los Angeles Times
Statistical Plotting with Julia: Gadfly.jl - Towards Data Science
Barbara Massey: Goleta Gadfly - The Santa Barbara Independent
Performers get into character for the debut of "The Great Gadfly" | Carson City’s Trusted News Source Since 1865 - Nevada Appeal
Bacon loses lone GOP primary challenger, gains another in Omaha-area House race - Nebraska Examiner
Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic - The Economist
Special Report: LA's City Hall 'Gadflies' - KFI AM 640
Richard Fields, a Socratic Gadfly, Gone Too Soon - Memphis Flyer
Attorney to Hippie to Beloved Literary Gadfly. Steven Gilbar? Yep. - Montecito Journal
Q&A: Alfredo Jaar, SCAD speaker and global gadfly, on "recuperating the power of images" - ARTS ATL
The Gadfly - City Journal
Punk band Gadfly to play reunion show - Journal & Courier
The Gadfly and the Grinder: A Parable for Hillary - The Atlantic
A Gadfly in Combat: The Rhetoric of Austen Ivereigh - OnePeterFive
SEU: Raising questions leads to better thinkers, closer relationships - The Daily Nebraskan
From Teenage Gadfly to Politico Reporter - Duke Today
The Gadfly (1955) - IMDb
"Among the collegiate herd of sacred cows and their worshippers now buzzes the gad-fly. - Harvard Magazine
Coming out as a gadfly: 8 years of blogging for The Mennonite - Anabaptist World
Classical New Release: 'Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Gadfly"' - Interlochen Public Radio
Hamish At Home: Vogue’s Gadfly Comes in For a Hard Landing - Vogue
BC Professor Reggie Williams hosts final Gadfly Cafe session of the Fall semester in the Levan Center - The Renegade Rip
The ‘Rebel’ and Human Rights Gadfly Seeking to Criminalize Ecocide - Undark Magazine
George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’ - The Salt Lake Tribune
Gadfly Hall of Fame - California City News
George Kennan: Gadfly and Insider - Chronicles Magazine
India’s gadfly - The Economist
American Gadfly - Official Trailer - IMDb
Margolis: Gadflies have taken over state GOP reins - VTDigger
Gadfly - East Bay Express
‘It’s Hard to Be an Activist These Days’: Gadfly Investors Trail Stock-Market Returns - WSJ
Lemonade & Loudness: How Gadfly Turns Oppression Into Ferocious Rock - - Happy Mag
Elon Musk Auditions as Corporate Gadfly, Taking Sides Against Disney - WSJ
A Gadfly in the Pinot Noir (Published 2011) - The New York Times
Baylor’s ‘gadfly’: NoZe’s Cunning Linguist wants to make readers laugh, think - The Baylor Lariat
Tempe drops case against city gadfly - Ahwatukee Foothills News
Audience Members Get in on the Act in ‘The Great Gadfly’ - Carson Now
"Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens - vocal.media
The Gadfly Daily’s week in review - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'gadfly'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
gadfyl,   gsdfly,   hadfly,   agdfly,   gdafly,   gdfly,   gafly,   gadfl,   gadfky,   gadflyy,   gadly,   gadflt,   gadgly,   gadflu,   gaffly,   gaddfly,   gadflly,   gafdly,   gadffly,   gadf;y,   gaddly,   gasfly,   gadfy,   ggadfly,   adfly,   fadfly,   gaadfly,   gadlfy
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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