About The Word Flyblown
![Bay Area Crosswords Bay Area Crosswords](/images/bayareacrosswords.jpg)
Learn about the word Flyblown to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Flyblown definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Flyblown
![Flyblown Meaning & Definition Flyblown Meaning & Definition](/images/wordmeaningdefinition.jpg)
Flyblown Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Flyblown?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Flyblown: besmirched | blemished | damaged | dirty | maggoty | soiled | sordid | spotted | squalid | stained | stale | sullied | tainted | tarnished | unclean Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Flyblown In Webster's Dictionary \Fly"blown`\, a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
--Thackeray.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wassermann ‐ a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is…
- Frontal bone ‐ the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium:…
- Surrendered ‐ given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished…
- Family uranoscopidae ‐ stargazers
- Pascal's law of fluid pressures ‐ pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to…
- Criollo ‐ cocoa of superior quality [n] a Spanish American of pure European…
- Ski jump ‐ a steep downward ramp from which skiers jump [v]…
- Kenyan monetary unit ‐ monetary…
- Provincialism ‐ a partiality for some particular place [n] a lack of…
- Meliorative ‐ tending to…