Word "GADFLY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a persistently annoying person
Synonyms:
blighter, cuss, pest, pesterer

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any of various large flies that annoy livestock

Crossword Clues for GADFLY

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Livestock-biting insect whose name may be used to refer to an annoying person The Times Specialist 17 Feb 2025
The -, 1897 novel by E L Voynich Mirror Quiz 11 Jan 2025
Persistent critic is commercial fellow left in sides of gallery (6)
Insect distressing to cattle The Sun Mini 06 Jun 2024
The little pest that has risen out of some lady fingers (6)
Wander about to escape tiny tormentor The Guardian Cryptic 22 Apr 2024
Wander about to escape tiny tormentor (6)
Irritating figure in golf commercial getting to travel by plane (6)
Bloodsucking insect The Telegraph Quick 24 Feb 2024
Figurative term for one who annoys others to provoke them into action (6)
Annoying type of grotesque, extreme advertisement on Dart Irish Times Crosaire 06 Oct 2021
Annoying insect The Times Concise 30 Jul 2021
Good lady cleverly circumvents female troublemaker
Insect originally good at digging for lost young?
Annoying type of grotesque, extreme advertisement on Dart Irish Times Crosaire 02 Jun 2020
Bloodsucker; annoying person The Times Concise 20 Jan 2020
Pest Canadiana 25 Nov 2019
Tribe sits on smart person seen as a pest
Remove resin from lady's finger, could be very annoying
It bites livestock Irish Times Simplex 27 Mar 2019
Bloodsucker that distresses cattle The Telegraph General Knowledge 09 Sep 2018
Annoying type of Biblical figure informs Pilate Irish Times Crosaire 28 Dec 2017
Annoying critic New York Times 27 Jun 2017
Persistently annoying person The Telegraph Quick 22 Apr 2017
Annoying critic
Annoying person produces great advertisement on The Wall for The Observer Irish Times Crosaire 31 Oct 2015
Annoying person produces great advertisement on The Wall for the Observer Irish Times Crosaire 06 Aug 2015
Guard's folly, regularly missing provocative pest
Persistent, irritating critic
Persistent, irritating critic
Persistent, irritating critic
Annoying sort
Annoying sort
Troublemaker
Political troublemaker
Irksome critic
Political troublemaker
Annoying person
Persistent pest
Provocative pest
Annoying insect.
Pest
Pest.
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