How to Use hot mess in a Sentence

hot mess

noun
Definition of hot messnext
  • Louisville was, to put it nicely, a hot mess for much of the season.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Hot food in the restaurant, hot mess around the dishwasher.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But when it's disrupted, your skin can look and feel like a hot mess.
    — April Benshosan, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Our goal is to avoid leaving a hot mess behind when we are gone.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And oh my God, Dixie Highway is a hot mess with the litter.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • After more than three months of front-running, the Rangers are nothing but a hot mess.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There are two words to describe the Carter family: hot mess.
    — Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Pass the Doritos, and pass on Longoria’s flamin’ hot mess.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Comfort, convenience and a hot mess pile of clothes to rummage through.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The result is that a spam filter looks at this hot mess of an email and basically gives up.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Ray Wold stuns judges with ‘hot mess’ knife-throwing act Ray Wold has put mother-son bonding on a knife's edge.
    — USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Others were kind of a hot mess on opening night and could have benefited from a bit more time in the studio.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • On Monday, Christian Wood, who provides a hot hand at one end and a hot mess at the other, also sat with foot soreness.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The world watches as our hot mess lukewarms, as all our quirks suddenly charmless.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Life may or may not be like a box of chocolates — OK, not — but the multiverse is definitely a hot mess of wiggly pasta.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • The Ultralight Smooth pair tames frizz and humidity, so the focus is on your voluminous strands and not a puffy hot mess.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • The city council in the nation’s second-largest municipality is a hot mess.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • For starters, the bathroom situations are usually a hot mess, so having feminine wipes on deck is a must.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The result: a hot mess of drama and a potential harbinger for future Netflix #content.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The Milwaukee Marathon has been a hot mess though from the word go, first with a couple of measuring mistakes by course-markers, several ownership and race director changes and then just a curse of bad luck lately.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Getting a better estimate for how frequent and widespread eruptions have been will help scientists refine their models for how the planet evolved into such a hot mess.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But in our age of cautious self-care, there is something appealing about embracing life as a creative hot mess, as the Sullivanians encouraged.
    — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • This hot mess began after her mother, Kris Jenner, admitted in her 2011 memoir to cheating on her husband, late lawyer Robert Kardashian, without naming names.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Pilot project After United Airlines went through bankruptcy and several mergers, the carrier’s technology systems were a hot mess.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • This sporadically fun but exhausting hot mess provides 202 minutes of hyperventilating overkill for star Ranbir Kapoor as a tycoon’s favorite son whose anger-management (as well as daddy) issues are off the charts.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Unsurprisingly, audiences rejected this hot mess, and that was basically it for in-character Brady series.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • The claustrophobia is palpable and perfectly executed as hot mess express Andri watches his investigation and his personal relationships unravel.
    — David Faris, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024

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