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flyblown |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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