mess up
Example Sentences
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"What Alan Garten did here is a pretty significant mess-up and again, as you just appropriately stated, it corroborates everything that I said."
From Salon
The prime minister has accepted he made a mistake but this mess-up is likely to stick with him.
From BBC
“There was no conspiracy. This was a mess-up. This was a goof,” he said.
From Washington Post
"But it's different for each mess-up, you know?!"
From BBC
“I never got to say I’m really sorry that this happened, or I really own that this was a big mess-up on everybody’s part,” she said.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
