horrible mess

collocation in English

meaningsofhorribleandmess

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horrible
adjective
uk
/ˈhɒr.ə.bəl/us
/ˈhɔːr.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant ...
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mess
noun
uk
/mes/us
/mes/
Mess or a mess is something or someone that looks dirty ...
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(Definition ofhorribleandmessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is simply appalling; it is in ahorriblemess.
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The rights were ahorriblemess.
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I noted at the time that the housing position was in ahorriblemess.
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I think, with respect, they made ahorriblemessof it.
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He is making ahorriblemessof his holding and the neighbours are complaining.
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The very sight of ahorriblemessis going to put an industrialist off.
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I wish that in the few months he will take his courage in both hands and start to put thishorriblemessright, because it is ahorriblemess.
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We must face up to the fact that the economy is in ahorriblemessand borrowing is alarmingly high.
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We shall still have thehorriblemesson our commons and road verges, and clearly it is necessary to make provision for these people.
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There are those of us who have said that it would all end up in ahorriblemess, and we have been proved right.
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That is why we are in thishorriblemessand are always running to the foreign bankers in order to borrow money.
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I have been trying to show thehorriblemessinto which the trade has fallen up to the present, and we are trying to find a way out.
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