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Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury Committee of MPs, described the situation as "one unholy mess" because dealers and lenders may not have been transparent to their customers.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

Specifically, the movie evoked that evanescent moment when the piñata’s gaudily colored candied contents fly in the air, right before scattering to the ground in an unholy mess.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2021

The two things collided and created an unholy mess.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2020

They were an unholy mess, tangled so badly the gangline was in knots.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen




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