adjective
1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
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flyblown meat
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a sack of maggoty apricots
• Syn: ↑maggoty
• Similar to: ↑stale
2. foul and run-down and repulsive
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a flyblown bar on the edge of town
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a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
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squalid living conditions
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sordid shantytowns
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sordidness (for: ↑sordid), ↑squalidness (for: ↑squalid)
3. especially of reputation
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a flyblown reputation
• Similar to: ↑blemished
Useful english dictionary. 2012.