ADJECTIVE
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spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
flyblown meat
a sack of maggoty apricots -
blemished, especially of reputation
a flyblown reputation -
foul and run-down and repulsive
squalid living conditions
a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
sordid shantytowns
a flyblown bar on the edge of town
How To Use flyblown In A Sentence
- There was ‘ongoing risk that residents' open wounds can become flyblown and infested with maggots’.
- Nobody likes them and they don't care not if some of the flyblown specimens that come sauntering up to you in Trafalgar Square are anything to go by. Bruisers of the bird world keep Mike Tyson's fighting spirit cooped up | Martin Kelner
- The defence of a ruined fort in the flyblown town of San Antone, against a superior force of trained Mexican troops, seemed reckless in the extreme.
- The world's full of flyblown old club pianists, but there's only one Mr Starlight. MR STARLIGHT
- It warns us in advance when starving, flyblown African children are about to be pictured in their death throes as we tuck into tea-time plates groaning with fresh food.
- To a man, they are all grimly grimy, stringy filthy hair on their heads and drooping from the bloody, flyblown scalps tied to their saddles, matted beards, funny hats and all. Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
- Freelance musicians at the lowest end of the corrido hierarchy, they wait on street corners or stroll through the flyblown cantinas, where for a pound a shot, they can offer you three minutes of glory.
- We could help reconstruct pre-earthquake poverty and give Aceh back its one, flyblown hospital to treat a region's sick.
- What sane person sends the father of their infant children to a flyblown African country to look good?
- Matt sez, This story has it all: a tiny, flyblown town rising up against their own draconian police force, a gang of cops shooting a fireman in front of a judge, it's utterly unbelievable. Boing Boing
