adjective
- infested with or containing maggots
- rotten or decayed
Examples
- The garbage can was full of maggoty food scraps.
- We had to throw away the maggoty meat from the refrigerator.
- The old apple was completely maggoty and inedible.
- The fisherman avoided using the maggoty bait.
- After days in the heat, the roadkill became maggoty.
- The compost pile contained maggoty organic matter.