Meaning of FLYBLOWN
| Pronunciation: | | 'flI`blown
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- [adj] especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
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| | Synonyms: | | besmirched, blemished, damaged, dirty, maggoty, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained, stale, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unclean |
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| | Definition: | | \Fly"blown`\, a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
--Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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