The phrase "a pretty mess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is chaotic or disorganized but has a certain charm or appeal to it.
Example: "After the party, the living room was a pretty mess, with confetti everywhere and half-eaten snacks on the table."
Alternatives: "a charming disaster" or "a delightful chaos".
All, in all, a pretty mess.
"The Buccaneers" as it was left is a pretty mess — an ambitious canvas spottily covered with pastel sketches.
A second cassette, Don't Sock the Tryer was withdrawn, with the band instead releasing debut mini-album A Pretty Mess by This One Band in April 1996 on the Seattle-based Will label.
E. writes that she comes from a pretty messed-up background.
"I grew up as a pretty messed-up teen, using drugs and alcohol and making a lot of bad choices because of the deep sadness I felt about not knowing where I came from.
It's a pretty messed up situation that can't be handled in a simple way.
When my dad died, I had a pretty messed up relationship with him and hadn't resolved any of it as an adult.
As idiotic as this is, it made me realize that I have a pretty messed up way of dealing with guilt, the emotion that figures in my destructive thoughts the most.
Now Cuban families will be broader in concept, now trips will be more frequent, and the influx of whatever cash anyone happens to have left over in a pretty messed up world wide economy will be able to reach the Cuban shores, but what about that other family concept?
It is not a pretty sight, but this industrial mess of blast furnaces, warehouses and cooling towers has been at the centre of modern steelmaking in these parts since 1902.
That is the movie's version of events, and it fails not because of its wish to simplify, which is fair enough, but because the image it comes up with is not simple at all; it is a confusing, if pretty, mess of special effects, like the numbers that flash and glow at us when Nash is attempting to crack an unsolvable code.
