unholy mess

collocation in English

meaningsofunholyandmess

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unholy
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈhəʊ.li/us
/ʌnˈhoʊ.li/
used to describe a combination of things when it is very bad, harmful, ...
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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 ofunholyandmessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Had the regulations' introduction not been so clumsy, would not thisunholymesshave been avoided?
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It is anunholymessand everybody knows that.
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The whole thing is in the mostunholymess.
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He invariably makes anunholymessof his responsibility in other matters.
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Unless we have someone who understands it, there will be anunholymesssomewhere along the line of collection.
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They have made the mostunholymessof it.
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I would not subscribe to the phrase "anunholymess".
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They miscalculated the situation, they may even have been misled by their advisers, and the situation is in anunholymess.
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But we must definitely state that he or his advisers have made anunholymessof this meat situation.
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What a mistake, what anunholymessthis will be!
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Having had the poll tax, oneunholymess, perpetrated upon us, we now have the council tax.
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I have a terrible feeling that anunholymessis going to be made of the whole housing question.
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Our reforms of student funding enabled us to start tackling theunholymessthat we had inherited.
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It would be silted up, and the channels would be in anunholymess.
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It is anunholymessconstitutionally, legally and practically.
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The existing laws on the exercise of police powers are in anunholymess.
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They governed from 1945 to 1951 and made anunholymessof it.
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She was in a mostunholymessas the proposals had not been thought through.
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Because, when it was in their hands, private enterprise made such anunholymessof it and when, because of the rottenness and evil of the system.
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If one were to contract out, and the undertaking to whom the service had been contracted out made anunholymessof it, who would then deal with the position?
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