FLYBLOWN

flyblown

1. especially of reputation; "the senator''s seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"

2. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

3. 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"

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