adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a messy divorce (= complicated and unpleasant to deal with )
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She wanted to avoid a messy divorce .
a messy eater (= someone who drops food and makes a mess when they eat )
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He's a very messy eater – he leaves crumbs all over the floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
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If they did, the whole messy business of recycling would be a great deal easier.
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Killing women was a messy business , so officials worked out a charade.
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I thought for a start it was because moving the dead body might have been a very messy business .
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Preseason hype, extrapolating last year into this year, tends to be a messy business .
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Goldmining is, by nature, a messy business .
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Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province, democracy wasn't mentioned.
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Divorce can be a messy business .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mr Sarcasm/Mr Messy/Mr Forgetful etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Does my hair look messy ?
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He only cleans up his room when it gets really messy .
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Mom yells if my room is messy .
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My desk isn't always this messy - I've been working on a major project.
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She felt uncomfortable in such a messy house.
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Their three-cheese pizza is excellent, but messy to eat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond the question of weight loss, olestra raises some messy health issues.
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But performance is poor, the steering light and lifeless, ergonomics messy and the gearbox jerky.
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For a messy person, Alvin had a wonderful planning mind.
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Killing women was a messy business, so officials worked out a charade.
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Parliamentary answers intended to explain the phenomenon left a messy impression.
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Quarrels were generally messy , involving hot tempers, grief, unpredictable actions, passion, outrage, betrayal.
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The Pentagon and its computers keep coming up with cleaner models of warfare, while the world gets messier.
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Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate.