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• a  (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible
  illegible handwriting

• Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.
• Before his death in 1995, the amount began accumulating so fast that the last seven digits became totally illegible.
• The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt .

• legible

News & Articles

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• Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s New, Boring Signature Is Headed for the Dollar Bill
  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's loopy, illegible signature has been, if not a national obsession, at least a cultural institution most Americans could rally around.
  June 18, 2013 - New York Magazine
• The Tragic Demise of Jack Lew's Once Awesome Signature
  This was Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's awesome signature in January. This is Lew's depressingly ordinary (and still illegible) signature in June. Obama's second term continues to disappoint in new and ...
  June 18, 2013 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance
• The White House Destroys Jack Lew's Awesome Signature
  This was Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's awesome signature in January. This is Lew's depressingly ordinary (and still illegible) signature in June. Obama's second term continues to disappoint in new and ...
  June 18, 2013 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Scarlett Johansson in Defamer.com (blog)
  She then wrote something not very nice about Scarlett Johansson, which, according to photographic evidence, went something like, "Scarlett is a bloody cunt / L / Peace and love / [illegible] / fucker."
• Raymond Sokolov in Brisbane Times
  Mailer's suspicion of technology was so deep that while most writers used typewriters or computers, he wrote with a pen, about 1500 words a day, in what Newsweek's Sokolov called "an illegible and curving hand".