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• n  poor handwriting
• n  an aimless drawing
• v  write down quickly without much attention to detail
• v  write carelessly

• As he lay dying in a Princeton hospital bed in 1955, Albert Einstein continued until his last hours to scribble equations in pursuit of his elusive goal of a unified field theory .
• A lot of people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings (or classes or trials or whatever).
• Even while eating, he seems to be multitasking; ambidextrous, he switches his fork back and forth throughout the meal and uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes.

• scratch
• scrawl
• cacography
• scrabble
• doodle

News & Articles

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• Trial under way in chalk vandalism case
  A trial continued Thursday for a North Park man charged with 13 counts of vandalism for using chalk to scribble anti-bank slogans on city sidewalks.
  June 28, 2013 - KGTV San Diego
• Senate to look at questionable prescribing practices under Medicare Part D drug program
  A Senate committee is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon to discuss problems of questionable prescribing practices under the Medicare Part D drug program. A recent report found that more than 700 doctors had unusually high prescribing patterns, and more half of them tended to scribble scripts for controlled substances.
  June 24, 2013 - Philly.com
• Snapchat Releases a Useless Version of Its App Just for Tweens, and It’s Called Snapkidz
  In what’s presumably an attempt to bat away fears that Snapchat is an NSFL app environment, the company released a tween-targeted version Sunday, dubbed Snapkidz. It’s sort of like Snapchat, but it’s completely useless in that under 13-year-olds can’t receive or send photos to Ashley, Ashleigh, and Ashlee, but rather scribble on pictures and just save them to their phones. Read More
  June 24, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Mitch Kapor in Wired News
  I'm an inveterate note taker -- I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper,Kapor said, pulling scraps of paper from a shirt pocket to illustrate. "I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them."
• Michael Laws in Stuff.co.nz
  Mr Laws said the graffiti would cost thousands of dollars to repair and was an example of the "mindless morons who seek to despoil our city with their illiterate scribble". "The perpetrators are obviously losers and want to proclaim their...
• Karl Rove in Voice of America
  I was on Air Force One, we were literally on final approach into Andrews (Air Force Base) and the phone connection kept cutting out,said Mr. Rove. "I was holding a piece of paper on my knee trying to scribble it down, holding the phone in...