flyblown BrE

Here and there the corpse of a dog bobbed flyblown in the gentle current.

Van Kiet peered through the flyblown window glass, then turned back.

Shops looked a little flyblown; the movie theater was showing second-run matinees.

During their suffering the rabbits often become flyblown and this adds to their distressing appearance.

The plastered walls were stained and flyblown.

A woman, her skirt rucked up and stiff red; a big wineherd man, his belly flyblown, stabbed in both eyes.

A flyblown, ramshackle building, no more than a large lean-to, is home to the 10 men who defend a provincial air base of Colombia's anti-narcotics police.

In Chaos We Trust (with FlyBlown, 2005)

His parents were churchgoers, and Riley appropriated the iconography of his 'creepy' religious experiences, particularly in projects such as flyblown (1998) and cloud (2000/2005).

Elisabeth Nietzsche left her flyblown, half-starved New Germany to rot, and scurried home to distort her brother's philosophical legacy.

At the reunion party the next year I had to wear something different as my dress, as stylish as it was, had to be binned as it became flyblown.

There's nothing nice about the Hirst, with its flyblown, abandoned picnic-table lunch, a barbecue with rotting steaks, maggots and flies heaving among the charcoal, the cow's head leaking blood under a chair.

There were two telephones on one end of the table, and a flyblown framed picture in the exact center of each wall--Washington, Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and the other one somebody I didn't recognize.

It is essential that flyblown meat is not given as food and it is equally essential to ensure that food given to the young ferrets doesn't subsequently become flyblown.

The front garden was a mess of overlong grass and discarded household goods: an old freezer, the remains of a washing machine, a cheap, off-white sideboard that had cracked at the seams and now mouldered in the deep grass like a corpse getting flyblown.