gadfly 的定义
plural gad·flies.
- any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc.
gadfly 近义词
goad; nuisance
更多gadfly例句
- Johns’s approach has been influenced most profoundly by Marcel Duchamp — inventor of the ready-made, lover of chance, gadfly skeptic.
- He'd be one of five people named “Kevin” in the race, though a state law passed after 2003 requires recall candidates to post their five most recent years of tax records, which could convince some gadfly candidates not to run.
- In 2008, and during his gadfly campaign in 2019, Gravel got the most attention as an old man who would say what plenty of people were thinking.
- But you run the very real risk of being little more than an interesting gadfly.
- The result left the Democratic governor, previously best known as a good-government gadfly, with approval ratings in the low 30s.
- I asked Child whether he felt a bond with me, based on the picture for my debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly.
- But when I said that Gadfly included vicious bullying and teen suicide, he changed tack.
- The right-wing gadfly is on the attack again—but this time she's going after her fellow nutjobs.
- The gadfly does not immediately sting you; it begins by buzzing in your ears, and you do not at first know what it is.
- As I shouldered my load their murmuring voices full of amorous desire stung me like a gadfly.
- Then she carried out her revenge by sending an enormous gadfly to torment poor Io, who was still in the form of a heifer.
- The trumpeter Gadfly and a number of his relations, besides several Grasshoppers and Bees, were the chief musicians.
- She was nagged incessantly by a gadfly of conscience that buzzed in her ears the counsel to tell the police.