Flyblown

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a.
     Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
                                                    --Thackeray.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flyblown
       See {flyblow}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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