Mangle in a sentence as a noun

The real danger of OOP is that people mangle it and use far too much state.

It's not just that you have a way to mangle abstract syntax trees.

Eclipse doesn't seem to have that restriction and manages to mangle my code from time to time.

There is no need to mangle titles consistently.

Lots of crappy web forums visibly mangle punctuation in a futile effort to avoid this.

Are you really comparing how second language learners mangle a language to the first language of millions of Americans?

Mangle in a sentence as a verb

Well, people are flexible enough to mangle their names to fit pretty much any arbitrary criteria, and that is sufficient for selling & shipping goods.

A bad translation might faithfully reproduce the text's literal meaning but badly mangle the literary elegance that made the book so acclaimed in the first place.

Developers mangle technologies designed for something different so it does what they want, with an increasing use of libraries and abstractions.

It looks like a mingle-mangle of different programming languages, application servers, domains or hostnames and independently running services - with a lot of bugs.

It's been awhile since I did large scale C++, but I remember precision with header file inclusion was a big deal in C++ projects, to the point where you'd mangle your class structure if it'd keep a cascade of header dependencies out of a set of source files.

I just applied to several jobs within the last few days; Jobvite lets me "one-click" apply with my LinkedIn profile, which is so much easier than those "upload your resume and we're going to mangle it in our web form".Disclaimer: Received several calls back same day/next day, in my mind that means its working as its supposed to.

Mangle definitions

noun

clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

verb

press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

verb

injure badly by beating

See also: maul

verb

alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"

See also: mutilate murder

verb

destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

See also: mutilate