scrawl

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

scrawl
    n 1: poor handwriting [syn: {scribble}, {scratch}, {scrawl},
         {cacography}]
    v 1: write carelessly [syn: {scribble}, {scrawl}]

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 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 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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