bollixed

He sounded almost embarrassed, though he didn't have anything to do with the bollixed condition of things.

It seems like a bollixed selection process."

"A bollixed mission this, and through no fault of yours, Arutha."

As his constituents awaken to another cold day of the bollixed politics of fragile pluralism and to still more numbing waits at the city's threadbare food and clothing stores, Popov is ready for another day of work, another day of pondering retreat.