flyblown

American  

[flahy-blohn] / ˈflaɪˌbloʊn /

adjective

1. covered with flyblows.

   flyblown meat.

2. tainted or contaminated; spoiled.

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flyblown British  

/ ˈflaɪˌbləʊn /

adjective

1. covered with flyblows

2. contaminated; tainted

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Etymology

Origin of flyblown

First recorded in 1565–75; fly ¹ + blown ¹

Example Sentences

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

Thanks to some understandable confusion at the ticket counter, they wind up instead in the flyblown backwater of Bet Hatikva.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

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

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