Hack
Hack verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.
Usage example: I doubt that she can hack a job with so many responsibilities
Mess
Mess verb - To interest oneself in what is not one's concern.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Even without being aware of the illegal hijinx involved in shooting it, the producer has the director fired for the insubordination alone and replaces her with an utter hack of a director that turns the movie into an even bigger schmaltzy Hollywoodized mess.
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Virtually any part can be removed by someone with a knife and sufficient skill to avoid hacking it into a bloody mess, making it disturbingly common for newbies to hack off the boobs of rabid preteen orphans after brutally murdering them for money and XP....and then eating said boobs.
Source: Organ Drops
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