Meaning & use
Scrawl
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To write something quickly and carelessly, producing untidy or illegible handwriting.
See it in a sentence
He scrawled his signature at the bottom of the form without reading it.
She scrawled a note and left it on the fridge.
A note on using this word
As a noun, 'scrawl' also refers to the messy handwriting itself, as in 'his scrawl was barely legible.'
Words with a similar meaning
scribbledash off
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Words with an opposite meaning
print neatlyinscribe carefully
Another way to use it
2. noun
Untidy or illegible handwriting.
The doctor's scrawl was impossible to decipher.
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