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Flyblown

adjective
1.
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.  Synonym: maggoty.  "A sack of maggoty apricots"
2.
Foul and run-down and repulsive.  Synonyms: sordid, squalid.  "A squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town" , "Squalid living conditions" , "Sordid shantytowns"
3.
Especially of reputation.





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... spreader, and many dairies, and even farms, are practicing the daily distribution of manure in this way. Removal every three or four days will not be sufficient. Observations have shown that if manure becomes flyblown and the maggots attain a fairly good size before the manure is scattered on the fields, they can continue their development and will ...
— The House Fly and How to Suppress It - U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408 • L. O. Howard and F. C. Bishopp


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