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Grammar : Adj
Spell : skrawl
Phonetic Transcription : skrɔl


Définition of scrawled

Origin :
  • 1610s, "write or draw untidily," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle English scrawlen "spread out the limbs, sprawl" (early 15c.), which possibly is an alteration of sprawlen (see sprawl (v.)) or crawl (v.). Related: Scrawled; scrawling. The noun is recorded from 1690s, from the verb. Meaning "bad handwriting" is from 1710.
  • adj scribbled
Example sentences :
  • With it was a scrawled line, "I'm leaving the head and heels of the future to you."
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • And I saw that the address, scrawled in pencil, was in Anthony's handwriting.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • He then unfolded a second paper, on which some verses to Sarah Bernhardt were scrawled.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • These words were scrawled in pencil on the inside: 'I don't want it indeed.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Often she had scanned Lucia's scrawled programs for the names there.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Edna produced the list, scrawled in pencil on the back of an envelope.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Obscene words were scrawled on the walls, and even on the pulpit itself.
  • Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
  • "Nora" was scrawled in Kathie's handwriting on the outside of the note.
  • Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus
  • He handed to him a piece of paper on which he had scrawled his secret instructions.
  • Extract from : « The Clansman » by Thomas Dixon

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