cacography

Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas! something horrible.

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.

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

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

A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.