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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scrawl
    n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl,
         cacography]
    v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n.
   Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully
   or inelegantly written.
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         The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not
         be legible.                              --Arbuthnot.
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         You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
   See Crawl. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Scrawling.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
   To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
   and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
   letter.
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         His name, scrawled by himself.           --Macaulay.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
   To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
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         Though with a golden pen you scrawl.     --Swift.
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Thesaurus Results for scrawl:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
barbouillage, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility, indecipherability, inscribe, pattes de mouche, pothookery, pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribbling, squiggle, undecipherability, unreadability
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