About The Word Scrawl
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Scrawl
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What's The Definition Of Scrawl?
[n] poor handwriting
[v] write carelessly Synonyms | Synonyms for Scrawl: cacography | scratch | scribble | scribble Related Terms | Find terms related to Scrawl: See Also | hand | handwriting | script | squiggle | write Scrawl In Webster's Dictionary \Scrawl\, v. i.
See {Crawl}. [Obs.] --Latimer.
\Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scrawled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrawling}.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.] To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay. \Scrawl\, v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift. \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. --Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray. |
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