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adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

adj. 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"

besmirched, damaged, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished

adj. especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"

besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

addled

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

bad, spoilt, spoiled

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

cold, old

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

rotting, decomposing, putrescent

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

dry, hard

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

limp, wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

musty, moldy, mouldy

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

rancid

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

befouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

dusty

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

fecal, feculent, faecal

adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces

foul, filthy, nasty

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

muddy, mucky

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate

adj. (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin

blebbed, blebby

adj. (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material

blotchy

adj. marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"

marred, scarred

adj. blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano bench"; "walls marred by graffiti"

pocked, pockmarked

adj. marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease

clean

adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"

trim, orderly, neat, well-kept, shipshape

adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

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