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.”
When he did engage, his answers were garbled to the point of incomprehensibility.
Charlie lent an ear to the garbled veblenisms and gave it up.
He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.
Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point.
It was garbled truth, but there was enough to make his spine feel like ice.
Frank, your mother must know, and if she waits she will get a garbled account.
A garbled history of the Gerhardts was obtained from Columbus.
Wouldn't he find out from the major if she had garbled the sense of his dispatch?
early 15c., "to inspect and remove refuse from (spices)," from Anglo-French garbeler "to sift" (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbala "to sift and select spices," related to kirbal "sieve," perhaps from Late Latin cribellum, diminutive of Latin cribrum "sieve" (see crisis). Apparently a widespread word among Mediterranean traders (cf. Italian garbellare, Spanish garbillo); sense of "mix up, confuse, distort language" (by selecting some things and omitting others) first recorded 1680s. Related: Garbled; garbling.
