Definition of Scrawl

1. Verb. Write carelessly.

Exact synonyms: Scribble
Generic synonyms: Write
Derivative terms: Scrawler, Scribble, Scribbler

2. Noun. Poor handwriting.
Exact synonyms: Cacography, Scratch, Scribble
Generic synonyms: Hand, Handwriting, Script
Specialized synonyms: Chicken Scratch, Squiggle
Derivative terms: Scribble

Definition of Scrawl

1. v. i. See Crawl.

2. v. t. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.

3. v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

4. n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

Definition of Scrawl

1. Noun. An Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting. ¹

2. Noun. A hastily, or carelessly written note etc. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scrawl

1. to write hastily or illegibly [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawl

scratchy
scrats
scratted
scratting
scrattle
scrattled
scrattles
scrauch
scrauched
scrauchs
scraugh
scraughed
scraughs
scraunch
scraw
scrawl (current term)
scrawled
scrawler
scrawlers
scrawlier
scrawliest
scrawling
scrawlingly
scrawlings
scrawls
scrawly
scrawm
scrawmed
scrawming
scrawms

Literary usage of Scrawl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"scrawl As a seal, see "Seal. ... is not a "scrawl by way of seal," within the Missouri statute providing that the signer of a sealed instrument must affix a ..."

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