Everything in garbled codes is styled thus (8)
I believe the answer is:
socalled
'styled thus' is the definition.
The definition suggests a past participle verb which matches the answer.
'everything in garbled codes' is the wordplay.
'everything' becomes 'all' (all things).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'garbled' is an anagram indicator.
'codes' is an anagram of 'soced'.
'all' going into 'soced' is 'SOCALLED'.
'is' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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