flyblown

Adjective

• especially of reputation
  • a flyblown reputation
    

• 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
    

• spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
  • flyblown meat
    
  • a sack of maggoty apricots
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  squalid , sordid , maggoty