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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies;
- Example: "flyblown meat"
- Example: "a sack of maggoty apricots"
[syn: flyblown, maggoty]

2. foul and run-down and repulsive;
- Example: "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"
- Example: "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"
- Example: "squalid living conditions"
- Example: "sordid shantytowns"
[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"