messed up

American  

adjective

Slang.

1. beaten up; looking disarrayed.

2. confused and unhappy.

3. intoxicated with alcohol or narcotics.

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Example Sentences

She’d messed up a few words, her hands were a little shaky, and she was sure her voice had also been shaky.

From Literature

About 15 minutes after an Air Canada jet collided with an emergency truck, a LaGuardia Airport air-traffic controller told a pilot, “I messed up.”

From The Wall Street Journal

First controller: "Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to my staff. And we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up."

From Barron's

Later in the audio, the controller admits that they “messed up.”

From Salon

"I have lost all motivation for anything," she says, "besides trying to raise a decent human being in this messed up world."

From BBC