flyblown

  • (s) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
    • flyblown meat
    • a sack of maggoty apricots
    maggoty,
  • (s) 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
    squalid, sordid,
  • (s) especially of reputation
    • a flyblown reputation

Synonyms

maggoty squalid sordid

Words of close approximity