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Adjective flyblown has 3 senses
- flyblown, maggoty - spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
Antonym: fresh (indirect, via stale)
- flyblown, squalid, sordid - 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"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished - especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"
Antonym: unblemished (indirect, via blemished)
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