messy situation

collocation in English

meaningsofmessyandsituation

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messy
adjective
uk
/ˈmes.i/us
/ˈmes.i/
untidy:
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofmessyandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We consider that in the difficult andmessysituationwith which we are faced this is the best solution.
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We are in amessysituation, half decolonising, half regulating.
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That was amessysituation, but let it not blind us to the substance.
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Through inability or unwillingness to think out a proper policy, a thoroughlymessysituationis developing.
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They have left a fairlymessysituationto us.
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It was amessysituationand an uneasy compromise.
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The statutory right to each tenant would be likely to end up in a slightlymessysituation.
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As a consequence of the way in which these matters were discussed, we have amessysituationwith a number of corn-promises.
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However, if we defined the whole thing completely, logically and legally, we would find that there are many anomalies because it is amessysituation.
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The result was that all those states could concur that the major cuts in fishing effort should be imposed on this country, which has left us in amessysituation.
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It is amessysituation.
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The government attempted to correct themessysituationwhich had developed.
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Amessysituationis a real-life, a highly multivariate one is where independent variables can not be minimized nor completely accounted for.
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The perception is that such a management style involves hasty decisions about things they have little understanding of, resulting in amessysituationthat others must deal with.
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It featured pictures of, and stories about, men and women in wet and messy situations.
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The idea conveyed is that in handling messy situations, it is impossible to come away clean.
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Jim often finds himself in messy situations because his laziness inclines him to search for alternative ways of doing things with less effort.
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