We may have a godawful mess here in a minute, Ernie.

This game, frankly, has a lot of problems (the rules are a godawful mess, for starters), but I can't help but enjoy it.

How could he have gotten himself into this godawful mess?

They also held together in zero-g, making them the only decent way to eat rice up here without a godawful mess.

You know what a godawful mess that makes.

"The shop's probably a godawful mess," she said.

Then this whole godawful mess had begun.

That your face is such a godawful mess it'd make a maggot puke to look at it?