A persistently annoying person.
1 The gadfly had flown away, and Sindri bade his brother cease working.
2 He killed the cruel gadfly and threw it into the river.
3 He brushes it aside as the elephant might brush aside the ineffective gadfly .
4 Evelyn Davis, a well-known shareholder gadfly , spoke frequently at the meeting.
5 Three-point sharpshooter, journeyman and league gadfly Derrick Fisher last served in the role.
6 Mitchison in this reading is a gadfly turned into a butterfly.
7 Now he says the gadfly approach is just not working.
8 Nevertheless, as soon as he arrived, both felt him the gadfly in the house.
9 He could not forget the sharp sting of the gadfly .
10 The New York Times chose to call him a "wiry Texas gadfly " .
11 His efforts can only be compared with those of a gadfly or a mosquito.
12 That man of intelligence who steals honey has to take birth as a gadfly .
13 And sometimes," he laughed, "those questions are as annoying as a gadfly ! "
14 Bonnell has entangled himself, like a gadfly , into a web of contrarianism and derangement.
15 The people arose in their exasperation and cruelly demanded to be rid of their gadfly .
16 Until that day, the gadfly will continue to sting.
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