garble

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Miss Mere, though visibly affected, had spoken this speech with a gesture and elocution so superb, that Mr. Garble could not help applauding, deeply though he regretted her attitude towards his honoured patron.

From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

With a sweet look of pity, Miss Mere went her way, and Mr. Garble, with some solicitude, helped his Lordship to rise from his knees.

From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Garble declared he had been compensated for her perfidy, but that he was sure she had not succumbed to his Lordship, having in fact rejected him soundly.

From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Garble, g�r′bl, v.t. to select what may serve our own purpose, in a bad sense: to mutilate, corrupt, or falsify.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Blunder, ‘to bestir oneself,’ and Garble, ‘to clense things from dust,’ remind us that the meanings of words are subject to change.

From The evolution of English lexicography by Murray, James Augustus Henry