Meaning

Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
2. A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
3. Writing that lacks literary merit.
4. (countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
5. (uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
6. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
7. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
8. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.

Example Sentences

She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.

we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get

When I saw him scrawlen on the plain, My heart aw flacker'd for't, I was sae fain.

T'poor pig what had just scrawled through t'bottom o' t'cart,

'Cut its throat,' I calls to him, but he didn't, just slashes its forepaw; but it dropt di-rekly, couldn't hardly scrawl out on the bank.'

Word Forms

• scrawls
• scrawling
• scrawled

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Use scrawl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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