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Definition of flea-bitten in English: flea-bittenadjective 1Bitten by or infested with fleas. Example sentencesExamples - A flea-bitten dog with an enormous tick in its head greets us.
- ‘Oscar's far too old for rabbiting’ said George sharply, eyeing the flea-bitten beagle snoring in the corner of the room with distaste.
- A flea-bitten rug dominates the floor (anything flea-bitten always manages to dominate) and the sacking lies folded on her ragged mattress.
- I began to see films in Paris movie houses, many of them quite literally flea-bitten.
- An army of dirty children ran passed me, trying to chase a flea-bitten dog.
- 1.1 Shabby, dilapidated, or disreputable.
龌龊的；破烂的；声名狼藉的 a flea-bitten Miami Beach hotel Example sentencesExamples - He dreamed of flea-bitten hotels and ballrooms, but he awoke with the smell of cigars in his nostrils, the scent of organized outrage.
- It will be flea-bitten inn rooms all the way then.
- We had in fact been walking in totally the wrong direction to get to our cheap but flea-bitten hotel.
- We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
- We spent the next half an hour trying each place up the road until we came to the flea-bitten looking bed & breakfast at the end of the road.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, mucky, grimy, muddy, grubby, shabby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, squalid, slummy
Definition of flea-bitten in US English: flea-bittenadjectiveˈflēbitnˈflibɪtn 1Bitten by or infested with fleas. Example sentencesExamples - An army of dirty children ran passed me, trying to chase a flea-bitten dog.
- I began to see films in Paris movie houses, many of them quite literally flea-bitten.
- A flea-bitten rug dominates the floor (anything flea-bitten always manages to dominate) and the sacking lies folded on her ragged mattress.
- ‘Oscar's far too old for rabbiting’ said George sharply, eyeing the flea-bitten beagle snoring in the corner of the room with distaste.
- A flea-bitten dog with an enormous tick in its head greets us.
- 1.1 Sordid, shabby, or disreputable.
龌龊的；破烂的；声名狼藉的 this flea-bitten gross-out movie seems to believe that it's about something Example sentencesExamples - We had in fact been walking in totally the wrong direction to get to our cheap but flea-bitten hotel.
- He dreamed of flea-bitten hotels and ballrooms, but he awoke with the smell of cigars in his nostrils, the scent of organized outrage.
- We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
- It will be flea-bitten inn rooms all the way then.
- We spent the next half an hour trying each place up the road until we came to the flea-bitten looking bed & breakfast at the end of the road.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, mucky, grimy, muddy, grubby, shabby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, squalid, slummy
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