cacography

Example Sentences

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He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.

From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Some of Artemus Ward's effects were produced by cacography or bad spelling, but there was genius in the wildly erratic way in which he handled even this rather low order of humor.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

If he owed to Smollett's Humphrey Clinker the form of his Up the Rhine, he has equalled Smollett in the narrative, in the variety of character, and in the admirable cacography of Martha Penny.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in Underhill's orthography, or rather in his cacography.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse