garbled

adjective

gar·bled ˈgär-bəld

Synonyms of garbled next

: made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up

a garbled message

garbled speech

… scientific cranks—those folks who concoct garbled and grandiose pseudo-scientific theories …—

Robert W. Wilson

A garbled group of syllables came over the speaker.—

Tom Clancy

But so much happened afterward to him that his five-day drive from Cracow to Warsaw soon became a garbled fading memory.—

Herman Wouk

Since the algorithm relies on the absolute accuracy of everything it has read to build the file, garbled information could lead to any number of mistakes.—

Paul C. Schuytema

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The fairy-tale forest evokes a little girl’s interpretation of the world, a garbled dreamscape of prohibitions and pleasures. —

Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024 Overhead, dangling from a gigantic black helicopter, is what can only be a massive Bible, but the lettering on the book is garbled, and the cross on the cover has an extra arm. —

Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024 The complaint says the competition that was harmed was between platforms (like X/Twitter and Facebook, for example) but that’s a bit garbled. —

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024 Meyers also called out a garbled answer from Trump. —

Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for garbled