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What does maggoty mean?

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Adjective
  1. (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
  2. (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious.
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And this is why maggoty mushrooms are so often found exposed for sale in summer.
The investigation began with the discovery of a deer carcass, decaying and maggoty, that had been dumped at the school's front door.
He had an ironplated stomach, but putrid and maggoty meat was too much for it.
There are menacing hyenas and a maggoty baby, but these aren't the moments where you feel Schrader is strongest.
I wash the dirt carefully off their stems, slice away any maggoty flesh, and cook them in garlic and cream.
Perhaps, dear, she has some interesting internal disease, or a maggoty brain.

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