The phrase "a messy combination of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, idea, or object that is disorganized or chaotic due to the mixing of different elements.
Example: "The project turned out to be a messy combination of conflicting ideas and poorly executed plans."
Alternatives: "a chaotic mix of" or "a disorganized blend of".
Food standards for the safe internal temperature for foods are a messy combination of science, overly conservative public policy and politics.
Frida is a fantastic creation; and her relationship with Ruth, a messy combination of big lies and small, important truths in which the power dynamic shifts by the second, is touching and terrifying by turns.
It seems more likely, as Yardley suggests, that psychopathic violence must be "a messy combination of nature and nurture". .
The remainder of the risk is supplied by experience: the messy combination of trauma, substance use, loss and identity crises that make up an individual's intimate, personal history.
There is something pure and joyous about their music, which is a messy and charming combination of folk, three-part harmonies, southern roots-rock and grunge.
Those splattered abstracts of dripping red and yellow have become synonymous with the messy, rambling combination of 1960s influences and indie that was the Manchester band's influential sound.
For example, if you try to heat them at more than 400 degrees Celsius (which some methods do), they collapse into all kinds of combinations, resulting in a messy mix of gas, oil, wax and char that's not especially useful.
Combo skin-A combination of either.
A messy structure of government.
Instead they turned back to real life, and above all it was Rauschenberg whose messy, rich combinations of painting with found objects created a pungent aesthetic of the street, the bedroom, wherever life is.
It's messy, it's uncalled for, and I'm feeling a complex combination of overwhelming emotions.
