The phrase "heck of a job" then became synonymous with an utter mess.

Yeah, it's the result of an utter mess of cronyism and lobbying.

One senior administration official called the situation "an utter mess."

But what Offenbach left behind was not simply incomplete; it was an utter mess.

And add to that all the complexity of a base-eleven math and you had what would appear to any outsider to be an utter mess.

The detectives found everything just as they had left it: in an utter mess, which the young employees were still attempting halfheartedly to clean up.

Moo-hyuk is a dying gangster whose girlfriend is now married; in short, his life is an utter mess.

Gaunt saw that his face was an utter mess.

The relativistic view of language without any rules leads to an utter mess and disadvantages pupils who leave school unable to speak or write standard English.

Unfortunately they happen to be useless at pretty much everything else, cue the complete and utter mess the world has become under their reign.