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Meanings of garbled in English

Lacking orderly continuity.

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Usage of garbled in English
1
It has always been garbled in the journals, and even in history.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
2
Each day you could hear new rumors, usually baseless and always garbled.
Alas, Babylon
3
The papers had some garbled version of the story at the time.
Foundation
4
Shannon's message was complicated, and when Nicodemus finished translating, it was garbled:
Spellwright
5
Demonstrator refuses to use Lindbergh's name to be garbled by the contrivance.
The new yorker
6
Not one of the men was able to translate the garbled scrawl.
Desert Gold
7
Some noise erupted in the background, and Esther shouted a garbled reply.
Latte trouble
8
Then a robed spy offered me a garbled comm message from Kubindi.
From a Certain Point of View
9
They clawed at Cregg's arms, begging and pleading in their garbled-sounding language.
The street philosopher
10
What she and Richard Kidd were saying to one another was garbled.
Watch them die
11
Reagan's one-liners are legendary; they filled a book with Bush's garbled utterances.
The Guardian
12
Most garbled of all, though, is the logic he applies to dubbing.
The Guardian
13
Before the accident, she'd had the same garbled dreams as everyone else.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
14
He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.
Adventures in the Arts / Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudevil...
15
It should not be summarized, abbreviated, garbled or chopped into out-of-context fragments.
Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History
16
I don't want the fact garbled, for it is of international importance.
The Red Cross Girl
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Less common