sorry mess

collocation in English

meaningsofsorryandmess

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sorry
adjective
uk
/ˈsɒr.i/us
/ˈsɔːr.i/
feeling sadness, sympathy, or disappointment, especially because something unpleasant has happened or ...
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mess
noun
uk
/mes/us
/mes/
Mess or a mess is something or someone that looks dirty ...
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(Definition ofsorryandmessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsorry mess

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We are experiencing asorrymess.
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What asorrymesswe have reached.
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We are in asorrymess.
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The whole matter has been asorrymess.
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I end with my overall conclusions about thissorrymess.
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We could get our agriculture into asorrymess.
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The wholesorrymesscould, and should, have been avoided.
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The whole thing is, in my view, asorrymess.
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There is great respect for this country, yet we are in such asorrymess.
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However, this debate is by no means the final chapter of a verysorrymess.
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I cannot believe him to be undisturbed by thesorrymessthat we are in.
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I have mentioned, one begins to realise the sad andsorrymesswe are in.
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We expect schools to patch up thesorrymessthat we, as parents and communities, have created.
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The common people are going to insist that the people who left us in thissorrymesshave failed disastrously.
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To be completely truthful, if that were the case most of us in office would make asorrymessindeed.
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That process, which began in 1979, has merely accelerated to the extent that we are now in thissorrymess.
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It seems clear to me that a legally defined status for community and amateur sports clubs would clear up thatsorrymess.
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Those three methods make sense and achieve the desired result: a party removed from thissorrymesswill take possession of the arms and explosives.
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As far as the controversial issue of discards is concerned, it is time to sort out this wholesorrymessonce and for all.
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Then at least the sub-contractors can have some idea of what they can expect to rescue from thissorrymess.
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The bargain is truly typical of him, and it is because of that bargain that we are now in thissorrymess.
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If, out of all thissorrymess, we could at least have the truth, in the end it might have been worth it.
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However, the biggest element of confusion in the wholesorrymessis the assertion that the health authority could somehow take that decision unilaterally.
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It is indeed the nature of that collective reaction and its likely consequences that is perhaps the one promising feature of this wholesorrymess.
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The whole thing is asorrymess, and the sooner we get some stability in local government finance, the better for businesses and the better for our communities.
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