[
US
/ˈɡɑɹbəɫd/
]
[ UK /ɡˈɑːbəld/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɑːbəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking orderly continuity
a confused set of instructions
a confused dream about the end of the world
scattered thoughts
disconnected fragments of a story
How To Use garbled In A Sentence
- Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
- You try to talk to a fellow shopper, but your words sound garbled, and others seem confused by your speech.
- On windy days, the smoke was wafted so that signals became garbled and confusing.
- The papers had some garbled version of the story.
- No doubt such garbled syntax does great things for policymakers sitting on committees.
- It seems that Valvasor made the logical (but incorrect) assumption that Lintvern (which is a garbled form of the German word Lindwurm, meaning dragon) was so named because it was the source of olms (which were fancifully regarded as dragon larvae at the time). Archive 2006-03-01
- * Maintenance *garbled* dation has mission impacted airborne opera *garbled* on most of air breather aircraft. Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
- During the Renaissance, for example, it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form.
- The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination. Allan and the Holy Flower
- His speech, impaired by Parkinson's, is garbled, but he plugged along.