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scrawl

[skrawl] / skrɔl /
VERB
write erratically
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The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

Managers can issue warnings to baristas who repeatedly write on customer cups ahead of time, scrawl something inappropriate or fail to use a Sharpie, according to internal guidance on the mandate to Starbucks stores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2025

That Oscar-nominated film is far more gentle and sincere than “Challengers,” a trim, naughty, ferociously well-acted trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom stall than quote Heraclitus.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

You’d scrawl your signature on each of the 25 cards, stuff them into their flimsy red envelopes and address them, painstakingly, to each member of your class.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

“He’s my hired hands,” she said with a chuckle, and as we had done before, we held the pen between my hand and hers and managed to scrawl out a signature.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos




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