Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
[1913 Webster]
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flyblown
adj 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
flyblown
See flyblow
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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