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/ˈmæɡəti/ · adjective
(literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown..
He pilots his disreputable father-in-law through the maggotier parts of the Big Apple, tries out unsuccessfully for a job as gorilla, pulls off an unconvincing fraud (surely Gothamites don’t hand over against an uncleared cheque?).
the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel
In the book, what holds the sketchy characters, the narrative chunks, and the ideas together is West's maggoty wit—positioning himself halfway between contempt and fear, clinging to literary sophistication as if it were the Mother Church.
I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch
Use maggoty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Maggoty means (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown..
Common synonyms include flyblown, worm-eaten, maggotish, stale.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He pilots his disreputable father-in-law through the maggotier parts of the Big Apple, tries out unsuccessfully for a job as gorilla, pulls off an unconvincing fraud (surely Gothamites don’t hand over against an uncleared cheque?).
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