Something badly botched or muddled.
1What is this?' She said there was a confusion, there was a mess-up.
2Divorce and a general mess-up-the usual end, I take it.
3There was a real mess-up between Boycott and Jim Love, who was also batting.
4And if I did, it would just be in my messed-up fantasies.
5Prob'ly lookin' at all them dead, messed-up faces and playin' with hisself!
6You are entitled to a couple of mess-ups along the way.
7That's a pretty messed-up reason, but it wasn't the kid's fault.
8If you'd had him in your computer centre, these mess-ups wouldn't have happened.'
9The titular character is messed-up, violent and gripped by neuroses, self-doubt and PTSD.
10This world is wrapped in complex, messed-up, senseless, and incomprehensible misfortune and sadness.
11These are fallible, coherent characters, making mistakes and stumbling through a messed-up world.
12The closer our man gets to the truth, the more messed-up he becomes.
13And that's the most messed-up thing about it. He keeps his head down.
14It causes a lot of grief and messed-up feelings between musicians and other artists.
15What kind of messed-up family are we dealing with? Notus just shook his head.
16She wanted to kiss Ezra for having as messed-up a family as she did.