(1) Clegg's most recent act of clegging was to explain to this newspaper that the Institute of Fiscal Studies was wrong to brand the spending review "unfair".
(2) Years from now, teachers will ask their pupils to stop "clegging on" about how the dog ate their homework and just bloody hand it in on time.
(3) "I think you have to call a spade a spade," he clegged, immediately before demonstrating his commitment to straightforward language by querying the definition of the word "fair".
(4) The previous administration's simplistic "culture of how you measure fairness", was partly to blame for the Institute's foolishness, clegged Clegg in a cleggish tone of voice.
Gadfly
Definition:
(n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over successive failed presidential campaigns Ron Paul turned from laughable outsider to respected gadfly to the head of an enthusiastic grassroots conservative movement whose overwhelmingly young followers have a major impact on the Republican party.
(2) The erstwhile MP and professional gadfly has published a blogpost decrying "privilege checking", and longing to return to a species of "reality-based" feminism where everyone would stop bothering her about class, race and money.
(3) If you are being slightly less generous, you might agree with the verdict of an internal Tory document that called them "cranks, gadflies and extremists" .
(4) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
(5) For the German media Samaras is the fly in the ointment, the gadfly who has put personal ambition before national interest.
(6) The prevalence of talent show products has contributed to this gadfly pop existence, even if they did produce acts with the staying power of Girls Aloud and Leona Lewis.
(7) This article traces Codman's career as an innovator and political gadfly at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the first three decades of this century, and examines the development and demise of his end-result system.
(8) Then Cruz was considered a conservative gadfly who would have to claw and fight rivals to be the favorite among even his Tea Party base but Cruz fended off rival after rival to win the Iowa caucuses and become the conservative standard-bearer in the field.
(9) Let's count some of the more vocal opponents – Oumar Mariko, Mali's perpetual gadfly; former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, who argues that it would be better to wait for the lions to lie down with the lambs; Paris-based Camerounian novelist Calixthe Beyala, who argues that those Malians who would prefer not to live under a crude faux-Islamic vigilantism suffer from a plantation mentality; and some truly reprehensible protesters at the French embassy in London, who refuse to believe that most Malians are Muslims and don't need religious instruction from Salafists.
(10) The Buk, known to the US military as an SA-11 Gadfly, can reach targets up to altitudes of 46,000 feet.
(11) Ukip, a party once dismissed as being filled with " cranks and gadflies ", poses a real threat to the main parties at the forthcoming elections.
(12) I said it far less succinctly than Greene did, though, in a long, digressive blog post in which I echoed concerns raised by a piece that had recently run in the magazine n+1: that Gawker, once a useful gadfly that irritated the powerful, had become a bully more powerful than the institutions it mocked.
(13) They sound a bit like those American gadflies the Bravery, and that is not good at all.
(14) "We are big enough and ugly enough to put up with being called fruitcakes or loonies or gadflies.
(15) Dempster, whose gossip column appeared in the Daily Mail from 1971 to 2003, a remarkable innings, knew his core market: Middle England moralists who loved a lord, panted over a princess, doted on a duchess and became horny over an heiress - especially when any of these social gadflies flattered the readers' own lives by having disastrous affairs, getting divorced, taking drugs, fighting in nightclubs, going to jail, and generally provoking self-satisfied tut-tuts.
(16) From political unknown he has become the gadfly tormenting the big players in the EU.
(17) A giant picture of a fetus was displayed onstage for a few minutes and rightwing gadfly Frank Gaffney warned of the dangers of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States.
(18) His remarks prompted an angry response from Mr Kilroy-Silk, the UKIP candidate in the east Midlands, who was infuriated by an internal Tory document which described UKIP members as "little Englanders", "cranks and political gadflies".