From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flyblown \Fly"blown'\, adjective Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn: {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}]
3: especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: {besmirched}, {damaged}, {spotted}, {stained}, {sullied}, {tainted}, {tarnished}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "flyblown": barfy, blasted, blighted, blown, crappy, despoiled, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gloppy, gunky, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating, odious, ordurous, puky, putrid, rank, ravaged, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, sposhy, vile, vomity, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, yecchy
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