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The phrase "a messy one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, task, or object that is disorganized, chaotic, or difficult to manage.
Example: "The project turned out to be a messy one, with unexpected complications arising at every turn."
Alternatives: "a chaotic situation" or "a disorganized affair".
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It can also turn a tidy room into a messy one (by throwing things on the floor at random) and a messy room into a tidy one (by tidying it up).
This can be a messy one so please don't do it on the carpet.
But, taken together, recent prognoses point to one conclusion: even a short war will prove fairly costly, while a messy one could deal the economy a severe blow.
Bold though it was, his mission was a failure and probably a messy one at that.
His succession had been a messy one, in the usual Roman way.
Though this is not a difficult process, it is a messy one, and not one for the squeamish.
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She articulates a neat narrative to Madeline; then a messier one to a therapist (Robin Weigert), with Perry present; then she tells an increasingly honest story as she returns to the therapist alone.
If ever there was a case that an information democracy, even a very messy one, is preferable to an information oligarchy, then the history of nutrition advice is it.
We're sweating as if we're in an oven, a big messy one.
The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.It may, of course, be that LSD has no clinical uses.
Tony's divorce from Angie was a pretty messy one, so he decided to fuck off to Ibiza for a few months to find himself.
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