gadfly

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.