garbled

Ninety-Sixth Street marks the first delay of the trip, the cause of which is lost in a garbled announcement from the conductor.

It was such poor quality that even Spencer admits you could only hear “every fifth world” and that it was all “garbled.”

He finally gets out a few garbled words only to have Alice push by him to help a patient.

When he did engage, his answers were garbled to the point of incomprehensibility.

Ike had an uninspiring speaking style and his syntax was sometimes garbled at press conferences.

A garbled account of this interview, full of unjust insinuations, came to Napoleon's ears.

He was an auditor of Josephine's Read's garbled story of our church-yard adventure; he had heard a true statement from me.

It has been garbled in so many ways that it seems worth setting down in full.

He has a few garbled bits of literature at his command, and makes use of mangled quotations from King Lear.

The clerks, who were busy forging prophecies for the Maid's benefit, did not stop at a pseudo Bede and a garbled Merlin.