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gadfly

Synonyms

Noun

1. pest

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

Usage
Gadfly Bites 6/22/26—The urban/rural non-divide - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Jean Ziegler, Swiss Gadfly Who Provoked His Countrymen, Dies at 92 - The New York Times
Harvard’s ‘Annoying Socratic Gadfly’ Takes a Victory Lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gadfly Bites 6/17/26—Nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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
Mayor Jones cuts off City Hall gadfly over anti-gay remarks - San Antonio Express-News
Gadfly Bites 6/12/26—Complicated matters - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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
"The Last Gadfly" - An Afternoon with Ed Jacobs - Interview - YouTube
New Zealand leads protection of world’s rarest seabirds: Media release 31 March 2026 - Department of Conservation
Subject: Weekend Reads: Harvard’s 'annoying Socratic gadfly' takes a victory lap - The Chronicle of Higher Education
'Pain in the rear' NJ gadfly will oversee farm program he criticized - Morris County NJ News | Daily Record
The Gladiator & the Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
Festivals & Events: PISS, Wait//Less, Gadfly, more to play Girls To The Front Fest Vancouver - Punknews.org
Gadfly Bites 6/10/26—Math! - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Girls to the Front Festival turns up the volume for its Vancouver launch - The Georgia Straight
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
Xi Jinping says Irish novel The Gadfly sustained him during traumatic teenage years - The Irish Times
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
The Recent Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States - The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Project GADfly update - AOPA
Global spatial ecology of three closely-related gadfly petrels - Nature
Martin and Xi say they read it as teens - but what is The Gadfly and who is its Cork-born author? - The Journal
Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education - ASU News
Utah political ‘gadfly’ George Zinn arrested, released after Charlie Kirk shooting - KPCW
Gadfly Bar: The Tucked-Away Lounge Drawing A Crowd In New York City - Forbes
Book Review: "The Year of the Gadfly" - Columbia University
Rand rides again as GOP gadfly - Punchbowl News
A Gadfly and the Navy - The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Hank Burchard, Post reporter and newsroom gadfly, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
Fiction Review: “The Year of the Gadfly” by Jennifer Miller - Newcity Lit
The therapist and the gadfly - Princeton University Press
The Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
Opinion: Gadflies, free speech and the future of civic dialogue here in Los Gatos - Los Gatan
A conservative legal gadfly faces the music - Politico
Punk band Gadfly to play reunion show - Journal & Courier
George Zinn, Utah man detained in viral footage after Charlie Kirk assassination, is well-known political ‘gadfly’ - New York Post
Farewell to a gadfly - The River Reporter
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
‘American Gadfly’ Review: A Candid Candidacy (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Dena Driscoll: Gadfly for Good | Generation Change Philly - The Philadelphia Citizen
Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly - Classic FM
Book Review: Christopher Hitchens — Final Stings From the Gadfly - The Arts Fuse
Word of the Day: gadfly (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Savvy Aviation unveils AI-powered aircraft anomaly detection tool - General Aviation News
James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007) - The Brooklyn Rail
Savvy’s Anomaly Detection Uses AI To Analyze Engines - Aviation International News
Bacon loses lone GOP primary challenger, gains another in Omaha-area House race - Nebraska Examiner
Performers get into character for the debut of "The Great Gadfly" | Carson City’s Trusted News Source Since 1865 - Nevada Appeal
Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic - The Economist
The Gadfly - City Journal
A Gadfly in Combat: The Rhetoric of Austen Ivereigh - OnePeterFive
Coming out as a gadfly: 8 years of blogging for The Mennonite - Anabaptist World
SEU: Raising questions leads to better thinkers, closer relationships - The Daily Nebraskan
‘It’s Hard to Be an Activist These Days’: Gadfly Investors Trail Stock-Market Returns - WSJ
The Gadfly and the Grinder: A Parable for Hillary - The Atlantic
James Clarke Five - Gadfly Groove (Favourite Recordings) - The Big Takeover
Q&A: Alfredo Jaar, SCAD speaker and global gadfly, on "recuperating the power of images" - ARTS ATL
Attorney to Hippie to Beloved Literary Gadfly. Steven Gilbar? Yep. - Montecito Journal
Sharon Anderson, a colorful thorn in the political eye, dies at 86 - Pioneer Press
George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’ - The Salt Lake Tribune
Swatting the Impish Gadfly – Jesse Russell - Law & Liberty
"Among the collegiate herd of sacred cows and their worshippers now buzzes the gad-fly. - Harvard Magazine
Classical New Release: 'Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Gadfly"' - Interlochen Public Radio
The Gadfly (1955) - IMDb
BC Professor Reggie Williams hosts final Gadfly Cafe session of the Fall semester in the Levan Center - The Renegade Rip
Barbara Massey: Goleta Gadfly - The Santa Barbara Independent
Richard Fields, a Socratic Gadfly, Gone Too Soon - Memphis Flyer
The ‘Rebel’ and Human Rights Gadfly Seeking to Criminalize Ecocide - Undark Magazine
George Kennan: Gadfly and Insider - Chronicles Magazine
The Education Gadfly's top stories of the summer - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Hamish At Home: Vogue’s Gadfly Comes in For a Hard Landing - Vogue
India’s gadfly - The Economist
Gadfly Hall of Fame - California City News
From Teenage Gadfly to Politico Reporter - Duke Today
A Gadfly Among the Wasps - WSJ
CLSA, home to gadfly analyst Mike Mayo, closes doors in U.S. - American Banker
Bad Astronomy | Social gadfly - SYFY
American Gadfly - Official Trailer - IMDb
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy - Boston Review
Great Read: A Baldwin Park gadfly the mayor would love to swat away - Los Angeles Times
Old man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk told cops he did it to 'draw attention from real shooter': report - New York Post
The Charming Gadfly Who Saved the High Line (Published 2007) - The New York Times
Wellesley gadfly convicted of extortion - CommonWealth Beacon
Peter Saul, American Gadfly - Hyperallergic
Amid Ruined New Orleans Neighborhoods, a Gadfly Buzzes (Published 2008) - The New York Times
The Gadfly - The Harvard Crimson
Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, 84, antiwar gadfly unafraid of flouting Jewish mainstream - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Opinion | The Strange World of RFK Jr. - WSJ
Bloomberg Plans to Discontinue Financial Commentary Brand Gadfly - WSJ
Io and the Gadfly Maquette (2019) by Olivia Musgrave - For Sale - Artsy
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'gadfly'
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Misspellings - Typos
gasfly,   gadfyl,   gadfl,   hadfly,   gafly,   gadlfy,   gadffly,   gadgly,   gadflt,   gadfky,   gafdly,   gaadfly,   gdfly,   fadfly,   gsdfly,   gadflu,   gadflyy,   agdfly,   gadfy,   gaddfly,   gaffly,   gadf;y,   gadflly,   ggadfly,   adfly,   gadly,   gdafly,   gaddly
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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