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flyblown::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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a flyblown reputation.
Examples of flyblown
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Releasing players, then not releasing them, is it any wonder they look flyblown?
From the couriermail.com.au
Mites that cause mange lead to deep skin fissures that become flyblown and septic.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Flyblown, empty arenas are not the only legacy of Athens'binge.
From the time.com
But invade it did and its bogged down in some flyblown village some near the malarial Jubalands.
From the economist.com
In the sweaty summers we were all flyblown and, like dogs infested with fleas, exhausted ourselves in brushing them off.
From the guardian.co.uk
This he did on street corners in Houston, as well as in any flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out.
From the time.com
Elisabeth Nietzsche left her flyblown, half-starved New Germany to rot, and scurried home to distort her brother's philosophical legacy.
From the nytimes.com
Churned up by the hoofs of millions of longhorn cattle and filling the streets of flyblown towns, it is the backdrop for many a shoot-out.
From the newscientist.com
Flecked with broken umbrellas, sagging bin liners, abandoned patio furniture, nappies and beer bottles, the flyblown carpet of refuse lends an apocalyptic air to the hill.
From the newsandstar.co.uk
- Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
- 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"
- Especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
- Contaminated with flyblows; tainted; sordid, squalid
- (flyblow) The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat
- (flyblow) huevo de mosca; contaminar; depositar la mosca sus huevos
- 1. (of meat, sheep etc) containing eggs laid by a fly. 2. tainted, corrupted.
