They had a "garbled version" of this statement, Jefferies says.

Better get it over before she hears a garbled version from Edward.

Sellar suggested that this tradition may have derived from a garbled version of reality.

But word of it had got out, though in a somewhat garbled version.

A garbled version of it had somehow reached England.

Before they get some garbled version through some other source.

I read the Stoker, finally, at eighteen, and it was even scarier than my friend's garbled version.

Her "Martian" language was simply a garbled version of French.

This may represent a garbled version of the above account.

No doubt Washington will pass on a garbled version of this message to London.