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What (who) is Gadfly - definition

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Gad-Fly; Gadflies; Gad fly; Gadfly (disambiguation); The Gadfly (disambiguation)

gadfly         
n.
Breese, horsefly, botfly.
Gadfly         
·noun Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
gadfly         
(gadflies)
If you refer to someone as a gadfly, you believe that they deliberately annoy or challenge other people, especially people in authority.
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Wikipedia

Gadfly

Gadfly most commonly refers to:

  • Horse fly or botfly
  • Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person who upsets the status quo

Gadfly may also refer to:

Examples of use of Gadfly
1. He was a worldly gadfly with a passion for ending nuclear proliferation and exposing environmental crimes.
2. The fractured Illinois GOP turned to Alan Keyes, a conservative gadfly who lives in Maryland.
3. Lamberth was criticized for it, and Klayman was dismissed as a gadfly.
4. I have to try." × × × As much as he is a passionate gadfly, Tancredo knows his limits.
5. Identified as "economist, gadfly," he sparred with that show‘s conservative host, William F.