Crossword-Solution: GADFLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gadfly | n. | Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “GADFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Provocative pest | 1 answer |
| Persistent, irritating critic | 1 answer |
| Persistent skin-getter-under | 1 answer |
| Irksome critic | 1 answer |
| Bloodsucker; annoying person | 1 answer |
| Annoying critic | 1 answer |
| Harassing person | 2 answers |
| oestrum | 2 answers |
| Political troublemaker | 2 answers |
| Horsefly | 3 answers |
| One who may bug you | 3 answers |
| Annoying insect | 4 answers |
| Persistent pest | 5 answers |
| irritating person | 5 answers |
| Annoying one | 10 answers |
| A CONSTANTLY IRRITATING OR ANNOYING PERSON | 11 answers |
| Annoying sort | 11 answers |
| irritator | 18 answers |
| kidder | 20 answers |
| Provocateur | 20 answers |
| Rabble-rouser | 28 answers |
| excitant | 34 answers |
| Heckler | 34 answers |
| tormentor | 35 answers |
| Scandalmonger | 38 answers |
| Nuisance | 39 answers |
| firebrand | 45 answers |
| Critic | 53 answers |
| Irritation | 58 answers |
| Trouble-maker. | 61 answers |
| Pest | 62 answers |
| annoying person | 66 answers |
| Agitator | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GADFLY (5)
And also the soul which is under a tyrant (I am speaking of the soul taken as a whole) is least capable of doing what she desires; there is a gadfly which goads her, and she is full of trouble and remorse? Certainly.
Holding it where she could see, he hopped toward her, eagerly, carefully, the gadfly in his beak, his heart in his mouth.
For I won her, my beloved, and lost her again the same day, and wandered away in my madness, even to Egypt and the Libyan sands, and the isles of all the seas, driven on by the terrible gadfly, while I charmed in vain the hearts of men, and the savage forest beasts, and the trees, and the lifeless stones, with my magic harp and song, giving rest, but finding none.
And as when a bull stung by a gadfly tears along, leaving the meadows and the marsh land, and recks not of herdsmen or herd, but presses on, now without cheek, now standing still, and raising his broad neck he bellows loudly, stung by the maddening fly; so he in his frenzy now would ply his swift knees unresting, now again would cease from toil and shout afar with loud pealing cry.
Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.
Quotes with GADFLY (3)
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. S…
I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a t…
The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1970–2017).