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Discover Ludwig"frightful mess" is correct and can be used in written English.
The expression is usually used to describe something that is very disorganized, chaotic, or in a state of disrepair. For example: "The house was in a frightful mess after the party!".
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I'll probably make a frightful mess of it,' he sighs, 'but then there's a very relaxed atmosphere there.
And as those rounds leave the muzzle at over 900 feet per second, they are fatally effective, promising to make a frightful mess of your pastel pistachio-coloured, unlined linen jacket.
Neither Protestant nor Catholic but glued together by Cramnerian prose, a desire to work together and village fetes and tea! Fast forward and this quirky institution is in a most frightful mess.
It can all leave a frightful mess -- but it doesn't have to.
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Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
How frightful!
Those frightful Karinska tutus!
They are frightful places.
They sound frightful.
Frightful medical sights.
The weather outside was frightful -- creeping humidity and brief, soaking showers -- and it wasn't much better inside; the air-conditioning was light if it was there at all, and the front door was open to the mess.
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