scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography
(noun) poor handwriting
scribble, scrawl
(verb) write carelessly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scrawl (countable and uncountable, plural scrawls)
Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
Writing that lacks literary merit.
(countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
(uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)
(transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
(intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
(intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)
To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things
• crawls
Source: Wiktionary
Scrawl, v. i.
Definition: See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.
Scrawl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.] Etym: [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.
Scrawl, n.
Definition: Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
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