flyblown

flyblown
    adj 1: spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies;
           "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn:
           {flyblown}, {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: {flyblown}, {squalid}, {sordid}]
    3: especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
    

Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a.
   Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
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         Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
                                                  --Thackeray.
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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