Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flyblown"
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) 1.7 (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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