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Definition of Flyblown
1. Adjective. Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies. "A sack of maggoty apricots"
2. Adjective. Foul and run-down and repulsive. "Sordid shantytowns"
Similar to: Dirty, Soiled, Unclean
Derivative terms: Sordidness, Squalidness
3. Adjective. Especially of reputation. "A flyblown reputation"
Definition of Flyblown
1. a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Definition of Flyblown
1. Adjective. contaminated with flyblows ¹
2. Adjective. tainted ¹
3. Adjective. sordid, squalid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flyblown
1. flyblow [v] - See also: flyblow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyblown
Literary usage of Flyblown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells, Joseph Pennell (1901)
"Where the road to Herculaneum leaves the bay and its seafaring life, it enters,
between the walls of lofty, flyblown houses, a world of maccaroni haunted by ..."
2. The Tower of the Mirrors, and Other Essays on the Spirit of Places: And by Vernon Lee (1914)
"... in the dreary black church of pilgrimage; flyblown pilgrims' inns and flyblown
pilgrims' huckster-stalls of rosaries and paper flowers all round. ..."
3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"... who consents to allow it to lie upon the counter, where it grows dingy and
flyblown. Amelia passes the door wistfully many a time, in hopes that Mr. ..."
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