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Scrawl   /skrɔl/   Listen
noun
Scrawl  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." "You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you."



verb
Scrawl  v. t.  (past & past part. scrawled; pres. part. scrawling)  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."



Scrawl  v. i.  See Crawl. (Obs.)



Scrawl  v. i.  To write unskillfully and inelegantly. "Though with a golden pen you scrawl."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scrawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... scrawl hastily with a dry pen that he had not time to dip in the well of ink. The shadow of the Lord Cromwell's silent return was cast upon them ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford

... I snatched up the paper. Vic had said in his note, that he would leave another note for me here. This was it, for in a bold scrawl at the top was my name. And in hardly decipherable script, below, ...
— The Infra-Medians • Sewell Peaslee Wright

... electronic shout, the most powerful and tightly-beamed short-wave transmission which men could generate, directed with all the precision which mathematics and engineering could offer. Nevertheless that pencil must scrawl broadly over the sky, and for a long time, merely hoping to write on its target. For when distances are measured in light-weeks, the ...
— The Burning Bridge • Poul William Anderson

... pencil, a pencil which must have been rather blunt, because the marking was heavy, though it showed signs of haste. No one familiar with Eagle March's hand could have failed to recognize it as his, rough and hurried as was the scrawl. ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... of any true Protestant, "as I am well assured the proprietor of this house is a stanch and worthy friend to the cause." But there were plenty of houses where neither fear nor fanaticism displayed blue banner or chalked scrawl, houses whose owners boasted no safeguard signed by Lord George Gordon, and with these the mob busied themselves. The description in the "Annual Register" is so striking that it deserves to be cited; it is probably from the pen of Edmund Burke: "As soon {205} as the ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy


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