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?