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Fly·blown a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray.
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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]