Sentence examples for a hideous mess from inspiring English sources

It is a hideous mess and always has been.

The result might easily have been a hideous mess.

But foreign investment is a dribble; farming and industry are clapped out; the civil service, especially the parts of it handling tax and customs, is a hideous mess.

Racing made a hideous mess of the Midlanders at Franklin's Gardens last season and possess the quality to do so again.

Indeed it was so difficult to penetrate what eventually proved to be nothing but an empty shell that my plate was a hideous mess once the operation was over.

The problem is not Time Out's list, the people who've contributed to it or even the films they've chosen (except whoever put Dune at number 57 – it's a hideous mess).

It will be horrific for her, of course, but I can't wait to see how she gets to the bottom of the whole hideous mess.

We have been getting praise from people who once spent most of their time deriding us and, suddenly, they're saying that we are important and a valuable voice, particularly in this hideous mess the country has been driven into by the coalition.

The Met's production, originally directed by John Copley, is still a hideous, confusing mess.

The government must quickly set about controlling inflation, cutting the budget deficit and cleaning up a hideous financial mess.

The first line is OK, perfectly serviceable; the second is a hideous, violent mess, a hastily cobbled scrapheap of syllables arranged without any attention whatsoever to the rhythms of English speech.