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Flyblown

adjective
1.
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.  Synonym: maggoty.  "A sack of maggoty apricots"
2.
Foul and run-down and repulsive.  Synonyms: sordid, squalid.  "A squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town" , "Squalid living conditions" , "Sordid shantytowns"
3.
Especially of reputation.






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"Flyblown" Quotes from Famous Books



... reechy[obs3]; fetid &c. 401. [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid[obs3], rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral[obs3], lentiginous[obs3], touched, fusty, effete, reasty[obs3], rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous[obs3]; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous[obs3], excrementitious[obs3]; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous[obs3]; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Flyblown" :   stale, soiled, maggoty, sordid, blemished, squalid, dirty, unclean



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