Collocations withmess
These are words often used in combination withmess.
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absolute mess
The place is a hub of activity during the day, and it has made an absolute mess of the plan.
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awful mess
We think that he is a rather kind and inadequate man who made an awful mess of things at a crucial moment.
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bureaucratic mess
The proposal will create a bureaucratic mess of unparalleled proportions, by creating two bodies responsible for the administration of one benefit rather than one.
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complete mess
It is a complete mess.
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financial mess
Now we are in a financial mess.
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hopeless mess
It has made a hopeless mess of most of our industries.
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horrible mess
It is simply appalling; it is in a horrible mess.
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sorry mess
We are experiencing a sorry mess.
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terrible mess
It was a terrible mess.
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total mess
Even so, there seems little doubt that its guardianship of the electoral records after the election was a total mess.
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unholy mess
Had the regulations' introduction not been so clumsy, would not this unholy mess have been avoided?
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whole mess
The whole mess must be sorted out.
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