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Meanings of scrawl (scrawling) in English

Portuguese
cacografia
Catalan
escarabat
Spanish
garabato

Poor handwriting.

        cacografia

        An irregular and illegible handwriting.

              Usage of scrawling in English
              1
              Ned took the paper, on which was written in a scrawling hand:
              Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots
              2
              The title was in a scrawling, strange script that she didn't recognize.
              The Assassin’s Blade
              3
              She opened the letter-justa few words in a scrawling hand:
              Lonesome dove
              4
              He kept notes, scrawling impenetrable messages to himself on ragged ends of paper.
              Perdido Street Station
              5
              I picture her scrawling out a note to Dear Abby on linen-blend stationery.
              My Sister's Keeper
              6
              In a magazine review his work was calledthe mindless scrawling of a Neanderthal.
              The new yorker
              7
              And now instead I am scrawling this nonsense in a tavern after lunch.
              Gilbert Keith Chesterton
              8
              My grandmother had put it there in a painful, scrawling hand.
              Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
              9
              Staring at the scrawling lines made me more fatigued than I already was.
              The Angel Stone
              10
              How useful was scrawling a preposition on a slanted line, anyway?
              Wired
              11
              The remainder confined themselves absolutely to business, scrawling postal-cards or reading their mail.
              Judith of the Plains
              12
              Hastily scrawling her name, Joyce ran out into the hall with her letter.
              The Gate of the Giant Scissors
              13
              What on earth were those nitwits trying to prove, scrawling on the walls?
              Dark rivers of the heart
              14
              Three scrawling lines of runes had been scratched into the wax.
              Celtic fire
              15
              Tapes are piled high in a corner, labeled in scrawling Arabic.
              Reuters
              16
              She jumped, scrawling a line of ink down the center of the page.
              Heir of Fire
              About this term
              Translations for scrawling
              Portuguese
              cacografia
              Scrawling through the time
              Scrawling across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common