flyblown
adjUK /ˈflaɪˌbləʊn/ · US /ˈflaɪˌbloʊn/
1
contaminated with flyblows
- Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
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tainted
3
sordid, squalid