scrawled; scrawling; scrawls
: to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly
scrawled his name
: to write awkwardly or carelessly
Examples of scrawl in a Sentence
She scrawled her signature on the receipt.
scrawled a quick note, stuck it in their mailbox, and hurried off
Recent Examples on the Web
To determine the extent of the abuses, The Times combed through more than 50,000 handwritten complaints that had been scrawled into the Kandahar governor’s ledgers from 2011 through the end of the war in 2021.
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Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Some writers who became well known in the early 1970s, like Taki 183, scrawled their names and street numbers all over the city.
—Colette Gaiter, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Some writers who became well known in the early 1970s, like Taki 183, scrawled their names and street numbers all over the city.
—Colette Gaiter, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for scrawl
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrawl. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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