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maggoty
[ mag-uh-tee ]
adjective
- infested with maggots, as food.
- Archaic. having queer notions; full of whims.
- Australian Slang. angry; bad-tempered.
maggoty
/ ˈ³¾Ã¦É¡É™³Ùɪ /
adjective
- relating to, resembling, or ridden with maggots
- slang.very drunk
- slang.annoyed, angry
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Example Sentences
I stand in one place in a grocery and look at maggoty cabbages for fifteen minutes while he tries to decide what to do.
As snakes, cannibals and maggoty supernatural beings rattle around the frame, “Jungle Cruise†exhibits a blatantly faux exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisson between its two leads.
Another paper put it this way: “An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.â€
“I was having a maggoty nightmare about those Hopper people,†she said.
“Isle of Dogs†takes off as Atari searches for Spots, a heroic quest that leads him to a canine penal colony, a wasteland where mysteriously sick dogs fight over morsels gleaned from rancid, maggoty garbage.
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