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• n  poor handwriting
• v  write carelessly

• 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 .
• Before long my writing life migrated to the keyboard, and my handwriting began its steady decline to the pained, barely legible scrawl that it is today.
• The ossuaries, including one with the scrawl "Jesus, son of Joseph" were moved into an antiquities warehouse where they languished, forgotten, until a BBC film crew in 1996 .

• scribble
• scratch
• cacography

News & Articles

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• Columbus trio Scrawl plays a rare show at Cleveland Heights' Grog Shop Saturday
  Scrawl's 2013 North American Tour will bring the Columbus band to the Grog Shop on Saturday. Uh, correction: Scrawl's show at the Grog Shop IS the band's 2013 North American Tour.
  June 13, 2013 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Quotes

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• Randal Keynes in Thaindian.com (blog)
  The manuscripts aren't easy to make sense of because Darwins handwriting is just a scrawl. You also often need to understand the context and his ways of working to understand what hes writing about,said Keynes.
• Darren Hughes in TopNews
  It is often mindless scrawl that causes great financial and emotional cost, which the perpetrators seem to care nothing about,said Minister Darren Hughes, rejected claims that tagging was art. "It is an invasion of private and public...