unholy mess
Example Sentences
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“His room was an unholy mess, the worst mess I’ve ever seen in my life,” MacIntosh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Specifically, the movie evoked that evanescent moment when the piñata’s gaudily colored candied contents fly in the air, right before scattering to the ground in an unholy mess.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2021
Those with the straightforward task of steering the globe's most popular and well-funded sport have left it wrecked on the rocks, an unholy mess of corruption, bribery and kickbacks.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2016
It had been almost a year since the welfare man had scared us into cleaning the house, and it was once again an unholy mess.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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