Crossword clues for flyblown
flyblown
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
a. 1 contaminated with flyblows 2 tainted 3 sordid, squalid alt. 1 contaminated with flyblows 2 tainted 3 sordid, squalid
WordNet
adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn: maggoty]
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]
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]
See flyblow
Usage examples of "flyblown".
Hotel while the front line troops died hot, flyblown deaths under the desert sky.
Besides, Harvard professors visiting the Executive Office Building in DC are harder to disappear than comm-symp teachers in some flyblown jungle village in Nicaragua.
His skin was pale, bloated and flyblown, his movements jerky and uncoordinated.
The still-living torso and head were left to die alone in a stretch of sandy, flyblown wasteland.
A bear cub on its own, gnawing at a flyblown carcass of a fox on the shore.
The smell of rotting, multiple death was unforgettable, a rancid bile like sour milk and flyblown meat.
In its flickering light they could all see three flyblown bodies crumpled against the wall, rocks scattered around them.
And yet his friend Pompey, whom he adored and knew to be so kind, could toss his beautiful mane of yellow hair unconcernedly back from his temples and whistle happily through his teeth as he picked his way between the deep congealed pools of flyblown blood in the square, his beautiful blue eyes containing nothing save approval as they roamed across the literal hills of headless bodies all around him.
It was Burgundus who cleared the Minturnaean drains and sewers when they blocked after floods, Burgundus who removed a flyblown carcass of horse or ass or other big animal from an inconvenient place, Burgundus who took down trees considered dangerous, Burgundus who went after a savage dog, Burgundus who dug ditches single-handed.
He was fascinated by the idea of getting hold of the ancient, flyblown skeleton in the lecture hall.
Other would-be deserters would look at those flyblown heads with their staring eyes and think twice about the seriousness of their service to the King.
Madoc drove the gravediggers to get the cadavers covered before they became too putrid and flyblown to handle.
He was entering a semi-slum section, the area of flyblown beaneries, boarded-up buildings, flophouses and wine bars which lies adjacent to the Union Station.
Making his day's stations, the dingy printingcase, his three taverns, the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone.
Burnett in a Chinese restaurant, in one of those cubicles weakly lit by a low-hanging naked bulb, with lengths of flex loosely attached to the flyblown, grimy celotex partitions, when Mr.