ill-spelled

At a time when people thumb short, ill-spelled text messages for most every major life event, Dan took to his typewriter and clacked out condolence notes when he heard one of us on staff lost a parent, notes of approval when he heard a story that he liked.

This Is Daniel Schorr 2010

At a time when people thumb short, ill-spelled text messages for most every major life event, Dan took to his typewriter and clacked out condolence notes when he heard one of us on staff lost a parent, notes of approval when he heard a story that he liked.

This Is Daniel Schorr 2010

Half drunk, ill-spelled rants onto the keyboard never do the job you hope; they usually make things worse.

Why e-mail is bad for business. 2006

If you write epistles as well as Cicero, but in a very bad hand, and very ill-spelled, whoever receives will laugh at them; and if you had the figure of Adonis, with an awkward air and motions, it will disgust instead of pleasing.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.”

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.”

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.”

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.”

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.”

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

It is far better to spend a few moments in seeking for a doubtful word, than to dispatch an ill-spelled letter, and the search will probably impress the spelling upon the mind for a future occasion.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis