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for scrawl
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n.
Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully
or inelegantly written.
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The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not
be legible. --Arbuthnot.
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You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
See Crawl. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scrawl \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.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
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Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
scrawl
n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl,
cacography]
v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrawl":
barbouillage, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility,
indecipherability, inscribe, pattes de mouche, pothookery,
pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scribble,
scribbling, squiggle, undecipherability, unreadability
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