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The phrase "avoid messy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to steer clear of situations or actions that could lead to disorder or complications.
Example: "To ensure a smooth project, it's best to avoid messy conflicts among team members."
Alternatives: "steer clear of chaos" or "prevent disorderly situations".
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In the wake of the Vioxx scandal many drug companies have been eager to avoid messy confrontations over safety.
In theory, that could help avoid messy situations like Newton's, in which months passed without significant action.
Or, to put it another way, as with an open-faced sandwich, there is a lot to like about Cousins, but he's missing something that would help avoid messy situations.
They grow up trying to one-up each other with baseball statistics, and as adults they're more likely than women to converse about topics in the news -- anything to avoid messy emotional topics that might actually be personally important.
Try to avoid messy facts that don't look like a permanent move.
Not only did it seem that pro-trade advisers like Gary Cohn were providing adult supervision at the White House, there was also effective pressure from Congress to avoid messy trade fights while working on the tax cut bill.
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In a dizzying series of days, he upended a foreign policy doctrine based on putting America first and avoiding messy conflicts in distant lands.
In this, admittedly, he is like many politicians, avoiding messy details that could be used against them, but Romney seems to be more prone to it than most.
Of the men forced out today, Mr. Lindsey was closer to Mr. Bush, and deciding to remove him was unusual for a president who values loyalty and has so far avoided messy public purges of his senior aides.
Thus, HWI simply measures flight ability whilst avoiding messy life history details.
Bush exercised a centuries-old doctrine, commonly referred to as foreign policy realism, an honorable doctrine that essentially calls for adhering to a country's national interests, avoiding messy internal quarrels in far-off countries and shunning the intrusion of moral considerations.
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