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Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n.
Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully
or inelegantly written.
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The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not
be legible. --Arbuthnot.
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You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
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Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
See {Crawl}. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scrawled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scrawling}.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
letter.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
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Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
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Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift.
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