shamble

Firefighters arrived to find a home in shambles, with walls collapsed, windows blown out and parts still aflame.

Describing the situation as a "shambles", Badenoch accused the government of floating the idea of increasing income tax rates only to "U-turn".

Alas, once the room was a shambles, the curtains ripped, and the pillows emptied of feathers, their meaning became all too clear.

One became two and two became three - and it was a shambles.

“Whether started deliberately or accidentally, global war would leave civilization in a shambles,” Eisenhower warned the nation.