flyblown
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
flyblown
- contaminated with flyblows
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 4, scene 7]:
- Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles''
- Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
- tainted
- sordid, squalid
- French: corrompu, contaminé, pollué
- German: unrein, verdorben
- Russian: гря́зный
- Spanish: corrompido, mancillado, contaminado
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