[syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]
3.  especially of reputation; 
- Example: "a flyblown reputation"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a.
   Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
   [1913 Webster]
         Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
                                                  --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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