Meaning & use
Scrawled
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Wrote something quickly and carelessly, producing untidy or barely legible handwriting.
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He scrawled his signature at the bottom of the form without reading it.
Someone had scrawled a phone number on the back of the napkin.
A note on using this word
Implies both haste and messiness, distinguishing it from a neutral verb like "wrote."
Words with a similar meaning
scribbledjotted
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