Garbled [verb]

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.

Each day comes and goes like a flash of filmed silvered garbled light.

And each Room is tenanted by invisible garbled furies and dubious ecstasies.

Yet these two garbled and distorted narratives are still the most widely known versions in England.

That I gaze inward at the garbled biograph of Me keeps me from several sorts of violent action.

I love your garbled temper, your aching thoughts, your troubled Heart, your wasted spirit.