garbled

• abridged
• aghast
• amazed
• astounded
• at a loss for words
• bashful
• belied
• bent
• bolted
• bowdlerized
• broken
• camouflaged
• censored
• choked up
• clarified
• cleaned
• cleansed
• cleared
• colored
• complicated
• confounded
• confused
• cooked
• crude
• dazed
• decontaminated
• defective
• deficient
• detached
• disguised
• disinfected
• disjointed
• disordered
• dissembled
• distilled
• distorted
• dumbfounded
• dumbstruck
• elutriated
• equivocated
• expurgated
• extracted
• falsified
• fibbed
• filtered
• fined
• fractional
• fragmentary
• fudged
• half-done
• illogical
• immature
• imperfect
• inadequate
• inarticulate
• inchoate
• incoherent
• incohesive
• insufficient
• interrupted
• irrational
• irregular
• jumbled
• lacking
• leached
• lied
• loose
• masked
• meager
• misdescribed
• misinterpreted
• misrelated
• misrepresented
• misspoke
• misstated
• mistook
• mistranslated
• mixed-up
• muddled
• mum
• mute
• mystified
• obscured
• paltered
• part
• partial
• perverted
• prevaricated
• processed
• purged
• purified
• rambling
• rectified
• refined
• rough
• rude
• rudimentary
• sanitized
• screened
• separated
• shocked
• short
• shy
• sieved
• sifted
• silent
• sketchy
• slanted
• speechless
• stammering
• twisted
• unaccomplished
• uncommunicative
• unconsummated
• uncontinuous
• uncoordinated
• under construction
• undeveloped
• undone
• unexecuted
• unintelligible
• unpolished
• veiled
• voiceless
• wandering
• warped
• washed
• whitewashed

• accomplished
• adequate
• ample
• attached
• begrimed
• besmirched
• clarified
• clouded
• coherent
• complete
• connected
• contaminated
• continuous
• deciphered
• defiled
• dirtied
• dulled
• enough
• explained
• finished
• fouled
• illuminated
• illustrated
• intelligible
• interpreted
• joined
• muddied
• ordered
• perfect
• polluted
• soiled
• spelled out
• sufficient
• sullied
• tainted
• total
• understandable
• united
• whole

• verb
  1. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
  2. To make false by mutilation or addition.
  3. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
• adjective
  1. (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled.

• The radio transmission was so garbled that it was impossible to understand the message.
• His speech became increasingly garbled as he grew more nervous during the presentation.
• The old cassette tape had deteriorated over time, causing the audio to sound garbled.
• Due to the poor phone connection, the conversation sounded garbled and fragmented.
• The instructions were garbled in translation, leading to confusion among the team members.

abridged

• abated
• abbreviated
• abrupt
• abstracted
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• brief
• broken
• canned
• capsule
• clear
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• compressed
• concentrated
• concise
• condensed
• constricted
• contracted
• crisp
• crude
• curt
• curtailed
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• cut-back
• de-escalated
• decreased
• defective
• deficient
• deflated
• digested
• diminished
• diminutive
• docked
• downsized
• dwindled
• economized
• elided
• encapsulated
• ephemeral
• epigrammatic
• epitomized
• expurgated
• fast
• fleeting
• fractional
• fragmentary
• garbled
• half-done
• immature
• imperfect
• impermanent
• in a nutshell
• inadequate
• incoherent
• insufficient
• interpreted
• itsy-bitsy
• lacking
• laconic
• lean
• lessened
• little
• lowered
• made plain
• marrowy
• meager
• meaty
• miniature
• miniaturized
• minute
• moderated
• modified
• momentary
• pared
• part
• partial
• peewee
• pint-sized
• pithy
• pocket
• pocket-size
• pocket-sized
• portable
• pruned
• recapitulated
• reduced
• retrenched
• rough
• rude
• rudimentary
• scaled-down
• short
• short and sweet
• short-lived
• short-range
• short-term
• shortened
• shortish
• shrank
• shrunk
• sketchy
• slashed
• small
• subtracted
• succinct
• sudden
• summarized
• summary
• summed up
• syncopated
• synoptic
• tabloid
• tapered
• terse
• tiny
• to the point
• transient
• transitory
• trimmed
• truncated
• unaccomplished
• uncomplicated
• unconsummated
• under construction
• undeveloped
• undone
• unexecuted
• unpolished
• wee

fabricated

• a bit thick
• abstract
• ad-libbed
• affected
• allegorical
• amplified
• artificial
• assembled
• assumed
• baseless
• began
• beguiled
• bogus
• bouncing
• built
• bum
• came up with
• caricatural
• carpentered
• chimeric
• chimerical
• coined
• combined
• complete
• completed
• conceived
• concocted
• confected
• constituted
• constructed
• contrived
• counterfeit
• cozened
• crafted
• created
• cultivated
• daydreamed
• deceived
• deceptive
• defamed
• deluded
• designed
• devised
• dissembled
• dissimulated
• distorted
• done
• dreamed
• dreamt
• drummed up
• duped
• embroidered
• envisaged
• envisioned
• equivocated
• erected
• ersatz
• established
• exalted
• excessive
• excogitated
• extemporized
• extravagant
• fabled
• fabulous
• factitious
• faked
• fallacious
• false
• falsified
• famed
• fanciful
• fantasized
• fantastic
• fantastical
• farfetched
• fashioned
• fathered
• faux
• fibbed
• fictional
• fictitious
• fooled
• foreswore
• forged
• formed
• forswore
• foundationless
• founded
• framed
• fraudulent
• fudged
• garbled
• generated
• gratuitous
• groundless
• gulled
• hammered
• hammy
• handcrafted
• hatched
• hewed
• highly colored
• histrionic
• histrionical
• hoaxed
• hoodwinked
• hyperbolic
• idle
• illogical
• imaginary
• imagined
• imitation
• impossible
• improvised
• inaugurated
• industrial
• inflated
• initiated
• innovated
• instituted
• invented
• jerry-built
• kidded
• knocked out
• legendary
• libeled
• libelled
• lied
• machined
• made
• made up
• made-up
• magnified
• make believe
• make-believe
• man-made
• manufactured
• mass-produced
• mechanical
• melodramatic
• mendacious
• minted
• misguided
• misinformed
• misleading
• misled
• misreported
• misrepresented
• misstated
• mock
• molded
• mythic
• mythical
• mythologic
• mythological
• nonnatural
• not genuine
• off-base
• organized
• originated
• out of proportion
• overblown
• overdone
• overestimated
• overkill
• overwrought
• paltered
• perjured
• phony
• pictured
• pieced
• plastic
• prefabricated
• prepared
• preposterous
• pretend
• pretended
• pretentious
• prevaricated
• processed
• produced
• pseudo
• put together
• put up
• raised
• reared
• reassembled
• rebuilt
• reconstructed
• redeveloped
• reedified
• refashioned
• refined
• remade
• remanufactured
• reproduction
• retrofit
• retrofitted
• romanticized
• schmaltzy
• semilegendary
• sensational
• set up
• sham
• shaped
• simulated
• slandered
• snowed
• specious
• spectacular
• spurious
• steep
• storied
• strained
• structured
• stylized
• substitute
• synthetic
• tall
• threw up
• too much
• too-too
• took in
• tooled
• traduced
• tricked
• trumped up
• trumped-up
• uncalled-for
• united
• unjustified
• unnatural
• unproven
• unreal
• unrealistic
• unsubstantiated
• untrue
• untruthful
• unwarranted
• vain
• visioned
• visualized
• without basis
• without foundation

falsified

• apocryphal
• belied
• bent
• bowdlerized
• camouflaged
• censored
• challenged
• colored
• complicated
• confounded
• confused
• confuted
• contested
• cooked
• debated
• debunked
• disconfirmed
• discredited
• discussed
• disguised
• disproved
• dissembled
• distorted
• doubted
• equivocated
• fibbed
• fudged
• garbled
• gave the lie to
• lied
• masked
• misdescribed
• misinterpreted
• misrelated
• misrepresented
• misspoke
• misstated
• mistook
• mistranslated
• mistrusted
• mooted
• mystified
• obscured
• overthrew
• overturned
• paltered
• perverted
• prevaricated
• pseudepigraphic
• pseudological
• queried
• questioned
• rebutted
• refuted
• shot down
• slanted
• talked over
• twisted
• veiled
• warped
• whitewashed

warped

• abandoned
• abased
• aberrant
• abnormal
• abused
• accessory
• aching
• adhering
• adulterated
• agee
• aggrieved
• agonized
• all torn up
• amiss
• anfractuous
• angled
• angular
• apparent
• arced
• arched
• arciform
• askew
• aslant
• asymmetric
• asymmetrical
• awry
• bad
• banded
• barred
• base
• bastardized
• battered
• befouled
• begrimed
• belied
• below par
• bent
• biased
• bigoted
• bitter
• blamable
• bleeding
• blemished
• blind
• blocked
• botched
• bottom-of-the-barrel
• bowdlerized
• bowed
• braided
• broken
• bruised
• buckled
• buffeted
• bunched
• burned
• busted up
• camouflaged
• cankered
• casual
• catawampus
• caught
• censored
• chauvinistic
• cheapened
• circuitous
• clinched
• cliquish
• clogged
• clumped
• clustered
• cockeyed
• coiled
• colored
• complicated
• confounded
• confused
• conspiratorial
• contaminated
• contorted
• contused
• cooked
• corrupt
• corrupted
• cosmetic
• cracked
• cramped
• crooked
• crushed
• curled
• cursory
• curved
• curvilinear
• curving
• cut
• cutthroat
• cynical
• damaged
• debased
• debauched
• decadent
• defaced
• defective
• deficient
• defiled
• deformed
• degenerate
• degraded
• demeaned
• demoralized
• denominational
• depraved
• depreciated
• depthless
• descended
• destroyed
• desultory
• deteriorated
• deviant
• deviating
• devious
• devoted
• die-hard
• diluted
• dirtied
• dirty
• dirty-minded
• disapproving
• discriminatory
• disfigured
• disgraced
• disguised
• dishonest
• dishonored
• disjointed
• disposed
• disproportional
• disproportionate
• dissembled
• dissipated
• dissolute
• distorted
• distressed
• disturbed
• dogmatic
• doubled over
• downgraded
• droll
• drooping
• droopy
• dry
• dud
• eccentric
• empty
• engaged
• entangled
• envious
• equivocated
• errant
• erroneous
• evident
• evil
• exclusive
• exterior
• external
• fallacious
• fallible
• false
• falsified
• fanatic
• far-out
• fast
• fastened
• faulty
• favorably inclined
• few bugs
• fibbed
• filthy
• fixed
• flagitous
• flash
• flawed
• flimsy
• foreign
• frail
• frivolous
• frozen
• fudged
• garbage
• garbled
• general
• glib
• gnarled
• gone to the dogs
• grazed
• grotesque
• grudging
• half-baked
• harmed
• hasty
• hit
• hitched
• hooked
• hostile
• humbled
• humiliated
• humpbacked
• humped
• hunchbacked
• hunched
• hurried
• hurt
• ignorant
• ill-made
• immature
• immoral
• immovable
• impaired
• imperfect
• imprecise
• in pain
• inaccurate
• inadequate
• inattentive
• inclinatory
• inclined
• incomplete
• incurving
• indignant
• indirect
• inexact
• influenced
• iniquitous
• injured
• insufficient
• interested
• intertwined
• intolerant
• invalid
• ironic
• irregular
• jackleg
• jaundiced
• jealous
• junk
• kinky
• knotted
• knotty
• knurly
• lacerated
• lame
• lascivious
• lashed
• lassoed
• leaky
• lemon
• lessened
• lewd
• libertine
• licentious
• lied
• lightweight
• limited
• limp
• linked
• lodged
• looped
• loose
• lopsided
• low
• maimed
• malformed
• malfunctioning
• mangled
• marred
• masked
• mauled
• mean
• meandering
• meshed
• miffed
• minded
• minus
• miscreant
• misdescribed
• misguided
• misinterpreted
• misproportioned
• misrelated
• misrepresented
• misshaped
• misshapen
• misspoke
• misstated
• mistook
• mistranslated
• misused
• mocking
• monstrous
• mutilated
• mystified
• narrow
• narrow-minded
• nefarious
• nicked
• nodding
• nonsymmetrical
• not straight
• oblique
• obscured
• obstinate
• obstructed
• odd
• off-balance
• offended
• on the surface
• one-dimensional
• one-sided
• opinionated
• opprobrious
• ostensible
• out of order
• out of shape
• outlandish
• outraged
• outre
• outward
• overbalanced
• overzealous
• pained
• paltered
• partial
• partisan
• passing
• patchy
• peculiar
• perfunctory
• peripheral
• perplexed
• perverse
• perverted
• piqued
• poisoned
• polluted
• preconceived
• predisposed
• prejudiced
• prepossessed
• prevaricated
• profaned
• profligate
• prostituted
• put away
• putrid
• quick-fix
• quirky
• rakehell
• rakehelly
• rakish
• rambling
• rank
• reprobate
• resentful
• rotten
• round
• roundabout
• rounded
• rudimentary
• rueful
• ruined
• sad
• sandwiched
• sardonic
• scarred
• schlocky
• scraped
• scratched
• screwed
• screwy
• sectarian
• seeming
• seized
• serpentine
• shallow
• shamed
• shameless
• shoal
• shook
• shot
• sick
• silly
• sinful
• sinuous
• skeptical
• sketchy
• skewed
• skin-deep
• slanted
• slapdash
• slight
• slouchy
• slumped
• small-minded
• smattery
• snagged
• snaky
• snarled
• sore
• spiral
• spiraled
• spiralled
• spiteful
• spliced
• spoiled
• spoilt
• squinched
• squint
• stained
• stiff
• stooped
• strange
• stricken
• struck
• subverted
• suffering
• summary
• surface
• suspicious
• swollen
• sympathetic
• tainted
• tampered-with
• tangled
• tarnished
• tendentious
• tender
• thinned
• tilted
• tilting
• tip of the iceberg
• took down
• top-heavy
• topsy-turvy
• tortile
• tortuous
• tortured
• trammeled
• trivial
• twined
• twisted
• twisting
• two-bit
• ugly
• umbrageous
• unbalanced
• unclean
• unconventional
• uncritical
• undeveloped
• unequal
• unethical
• uneven
• unfair
• unfinished
• unfit
• unfriendly
• unhappy
• unhealthy
• unindifferent
• unjust
• unnatural
• unprincipled
• unreasoning
• unreliable
• unretentive
• unscrupulous
• unshapely
• unsound
• unsteady
• unusual
• unwholesome
• unworkable
• veiled
• vicious
• vile
• villainous
• vitiate
• vitiated
• wanton
• watered down
• weak
• weakened
• wedged
• weird
• whirled
• whitewashed
• wicked
• wilted
• winded
• winding
• wound
• wounded
• wreathed
• wrecked
• wrenched
• wrested
• wrong
• wrung
• yellow
• zealous
• zigzag

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