Scrawl

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  • intransitive verb. To write hastily or sloppily.
  • intransitive verb. To write something in a hasty or sloppy manner.
  • noun. Sloppy, often illegible handwriting.
  • noun. Something, such as a note, written hastily or sloppily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The young of the dog-crab.
  • noun. A trawl.
  • To creep; crawl; by extension, to swarm with crawling things.
  • To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly with a pen, pencil, or other marking implement; write awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly; scribble: as, to scrawl a letter; also, to make irregular lines or bad writing on: as, to scrawl a piece of paper.
  • To mark with irregular wandering or zigzag lines: as, eggs scrawled with black (natural marking).
  • To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
  • noun. A piece of unskilful or inelegant writing; also, a piece of hasty, bad writing.
  • noun. A ragged, broken branch of a tree; brushwood.
  • noun. In law, same as scroll-seal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. See crawl.
  • intransitive verb. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
  • transitive verb. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble.
  • noun. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
  • noun. A hastily, or carelessly written note etc.
  • verb. To write something hastily or illegibly.
  • verb. To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. poor handwriting
  • verb. write carelessly
  • Word Usage
    "For anyone who has been unlucky enough to befall the horrors of my handwriting, firstly I say I’m sorry – but secondly – if I did that, I would have no idea what I have just written – much less the scrawl from a day ago. thank goodness for spellchecker as my typing is just as bad – but at least the letters are uniformly shaped."
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