Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a.
   Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.

         Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.
                                                  --Thackeray.

Source : WordNet®

flyblown
     adj 1: spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown
            meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn: {maggoty}]
     2: 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" [syn: {squalid}, {sordid}]
     3: especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged
        reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished
        reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: {besmirched},
         {damaged}, {spotted}, {stained}, {sullied}, {tainted}, {tarnished}]

flyblown
     See {flyblow}