flyblown

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adjective

1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
- flyblown meat
- a sack of maggoty apricots
• Syn:
maggoty
• Similar to:
stale
• Derivationally related forms:
maggot (for: maggoty)
2. foul and run-down and repulsive
- a flyblown bar on the edge of town
- a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
- squalid living conditions
- sordid shantytowns
• Syn:
squalid, sordid
• Similar to:
dirty, soiled, unclean
• Derivationally related forms:
sordidness (for: sordid), squalidness (for: squalid)
3. especially of reputation
- a flyblown reputation
• Similar to:
blemished