Example Sentences

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Prolonged dread is the mark of this moment, of its seeming inscrutability, its illegibility, where the improbable has become likely.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023

The abstraction of the design renders its daytime illegibility a little less disappointing.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2020

I was known, by then, as an overly conscientious student, and most of the teachers ignored the illegibility of my new handwriting.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

Without durable, waterproof oak gall ink — produced when wasps inject chemical irritants into trees — countless medieval and Renaissance manuscripts would have deteriorated into illegibility.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019

These are few, beauty and artistic form being apparently linked in some way with illegibility by many printers, no matter what the size of the type-face.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.