About The Word Flyblown
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Flyblown
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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.
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