awful mess

collocation in English

meaningsofawfulandmess

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awful
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.fəl/us
/ˈɑː.fəl/
extremely bad ...
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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 ofawfulandmessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofawful mess

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We think that he is a rather kind and inadequate man who made anawfulmessof things at a crucial moment.
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The only way out of thisawfulmessis through national control.
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We came to find anawfulmesson a pavement.
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The party opposite had landed us in a mostawfulmess.
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Between them, they made anawfulmessof it.
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For humanitarian and many other reasons we have to play our part in trying to sort out theawfulmessthere.
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They have made anawfulmessof their finances.
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What anawfulmesswe would be in if we believed that and managed our affairs on that basis.
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There are many other cases in which itinerants arrive, make anawfulmessand then disappear, leaving the local community to clear up.
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There the traffic is quite substantial, and you cannot leave your point—or, if you do, there is anawfulmess, as the traffic becomes blocked.
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When one tries, however, to draw the line somewhere or to embark on the path of exemptions, one gets into anawfulmess.
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What anawfulmessthey must inevitably make of it.
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He must be in anawfulmessif he has to use that argument, which has no intellectual validity whatever.
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He is in anawfulmessat the moment, and does not yet know it.
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It got into anawfulmessover the dog registration scheme.
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There is no willing majority for thisawfulmess.
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The parish restored it and made anawfulmessfor 20 ft on each side of the path.
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I do not think it would be possible to go beyond the shores of this country without getting into anawfulmess.
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Putting a voucher system on top of that chaos could create anawfulmess.
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It does that, but it makes anawfulmessof the shape of our economy.
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