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Scrawl   /skrɔl/   Listen
Scrawl

noun
1.
Poor handwriting.  Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble.
verb
(past & past part. scrawled; pres. part. scrawling)
1.
Write carelessly.  Synonym: scribble.



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"Scrawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was a hasty scrawl to McLean, saying that Ryder was on his way with the museum finds and sending this ahead by runner, and that McLean must positively be at the Cairo Museum to meet him at five and would he please stop on the way ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... a crumpled sheet of note paper before us on which was written something in a trembling scrawl. "For instance, here's a letter ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... came bounding down again, stricken white, and not caring if he encountered the devil. On his table he had found a package—the complete manuscript of "Roderick Hanscom" and this scrawl: ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington

... with him has done; He's buried; save the undertaker's bill, Or lapidary scrawl, the world is gone For him, unless he left a German will:[508] But where's the proctor who will ask his son? In whom his qualities are reigning still,[gl] Except that household virtue, most uncommon, Of constancy ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... for it was open at the portrait of Roberts. Underneath the portrait were a few words written in pencil in a clumsy scrawl. I read them over, expecting some of the ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield


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