messed up

adjective

Slang.

1. beaten up; looking disarrayed.

2. confused and unhappy.

3. intoxicated with alcohol or narcotics.

Example Sentences

“The system just feels like it’s messed up,” said Chris Reed, 33, who was laid off a year ago from his job in technology sales, his field of more than a decade.

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He says, "Not going to Jacqui, their patient, and saying we have messed up. Jacqui had a right to know about that, and they kept it from her."

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An admission that it messed up is a big deal.

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“Tom was about health, about not getting all messed up, about being a fighter and a warrior and taking care of your body first. To find that in punk was very different.”

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"He wanted somebody whose mind wasn't messed up by the reductionist attitude of science to animals," she said.

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