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Omnishambles 

A person or situation that looks like a fuck up from all possible angles.

Originally coined in S03E01 of The Thick of It:
Not only have you got a fucking bent husband and a fucking daughter that gets taken to school in a fucking sedan chair, you're also fucking mental. Jesus Christ, see you, you're a fucking omnishambles, that's what you are. You're like that coffee machine, you know: from bean to cup, you fuck up.

– Malcolm Tucker
Omnishambles by arthurdent November 29, 2012
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omnishambles 

a person who is not only a shambles in one single aspect but is in fact a shambles in all aspects of life
not only is her love life a mess but she just got fired, she's an omnishambles
omnishambles by hellrocker February 25, 2012
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Omnishambles 

A description of something, be it an object, person, or state, that is in all ways a giant clusterfuck.
Steve Gorman made a right omnishambles of that base design.
Omnishambles by trotski1977 July 16, 2016

omnishambles 

noun
informal•British
noun: omnishambles
1. a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
"anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking kirbie’s sums"
omnishambles by M.N. Legov June 13, 2019

Omnishambles 

this world is in Omnishambles.
Omnishambles by Joxnny Volsung November 13, 2012

Omnishambles

When something is so diabolical in every way imaginable, you have to add a Latin prefix.
My gosh, our government is such an omnishambles!
Our trip ended up turning into an absolute omnishambles.
Omnishambles by rmHawk765 August 18, 2026

Omni-shambles

A prodigiously inept individual, typically involved in the political domain. Just as God is omni-potent and 'all-powerful', such an incompetent is omni-shambolic and 'all-failing'. Coined by Malcolm Tucker, of 'The Thick of It' fame.
I was going to ask if you could help me with my science project, but then I remembered you were the omni-shambles so I asked my step-dad for some money so I could download it from the internet instead.
Omni-shambles by FitzyG789 February 15, 2010
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