Found 2 items, similar to Flyblown.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: flyblown
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]
flyblown
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flyblow
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Flyblown
Flyblown
\Fly"blown`\, a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
[1913 Webster]
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]