adjective
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covered with flyblows
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contaminated; tainted
Etymology
Origin of flyblown
Example Sentences
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The Hotel Portales in Colima, the Salton Sea and the saloon bars of El Centro and Mazatlán: These were flyblown places that all remained internally fossilized.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018
But right now, Cambodia is looking even less attractive than a crushingly monotonous life in a bunch of flyblown tents somewhere in the Pacific.
From Time • May 5, 2015
So much flowed from that acrid, flyblown, and relatively brief campaign.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2015
Like Ms. Thurber’s Obie-winning, five-part “Hill Town Plays” cycle, “The Insurgents” is set in a flyblown, poverty-blighted corner of New England, a place that people get stuck in forever, even if they think they’ve escaped.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2015
They had front porches in identical states of disrepair, tin roofs warped and rusted to a similar dull red hue, and flyblown outhouses in each dirt backyard.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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