Failed and Messed up

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Messed up and failed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Messed up" instead an adjective "Failed".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failing

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Failed and messed up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failed" instead an adjective phrase "Messed up".

Deadpool was probably messed up before developing terminal cancer, but the Weapon X program (which initially failed to give him a Healing Factor) gives him a hard shove in that direction.

Source: With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Hypocritical Humor: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he tried (and failed) to register a trademark for "Let's Play".

Source: Webcomic / Consolers
It failed miserably, with people universally panning the taste, and in a few months, they went back to the old formula, now called "Coke Classic" to assure customers it was the same product they had always loved and admitting they had messed up with New Coke.

Source: We Don't Suck Anymore

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