flyblown English

Meaning flyblown meaning

What does flyblown mean?

flyblown

— adjective (= maggoty) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies flyblown meat a sack of maggoty apricots

— adjective especially of reputation a flyblown reputation

— adjective (= squalid, sordid) 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

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squalid

maggoty

tainted

sordid

impure

dingy

unsoundness

turned

staleness

spoilt

spoiled

soured

smutty

slumlike

scrimy

rancid

putrid

off

mozy

mawky

maggotish

foul

filthy

feculent

draggled

dirty-minded

dirty

corruption

corrupt

contaminating

contaminated

capricious

blighted

blight

bedraggled

bad