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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fly in the ointment has 1 sense

• fly in the ointment(n = noun.attribute) - an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something;
is a kind of inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment

THESAURUS

fly in the ointment

abomination, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, blemish, blight, block, blockade, bottleneck, bug, catch, cordon, corruption, crack, crying evil, curtain, damage, defect, defection, deficiency, defilement, despoliation, destruction, determent, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, drawback, evil, failing, failure, fault, faute, flaw, foible, frailty, grievance, hang-up, harm, havoc, hazard, hitch, hole, hurdle, hurt, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, infection, infirmity, injury, joker, kink, little problem, mischief, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, outrage, poison, pollution, problem, rift, rub, shortcoming, snag, something missing, stumbling block, stumbling stone, taint, the worst, toxin, venom, vexation, vulnerable place, weak link, weak point, weakness, woe, wrong

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