Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scrawls; a hasty or awkward writer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
scrawls ; a hasty, awkwardwriter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read
Etymologies
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Examples
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Alternatively, the scrawler might also have written, "This is American justice."
James Heffernan: What Does the President Mean by "Justice"? 2008
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This opinionated scrawler first takes his or her catty toll on the visage of Ms. Sharon Stone.
Archive 2006-01-01 Michelle Collins 2006
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He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.
The Woodlanders 2006
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This opinionated scrawler first takes his or her catty toll on the visage of Ms. Sharon Stone.
Too Young, Too Old, Just Right Michelle Collins 2006
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A $250 annual credit to anyone whose work involves writing -- from the lowliest scrawler of memos to the loftiest professor or consultant -- who consistently avoids using empty jargon (terms like "paradigm" or "linearity") and ungrammatical but politically correct constructions (like "everybody does their part").
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No backstreet scrawler upon walls could ever do that to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, however.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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The anti-Semitic subway scrawler added an "E" and a "W" to the end of the "Avenue J" sign on the station platform.
NYDN Rss ROCCO PARASCANDOLA 2011
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The game is the latest in Ding Wei's repertoire, which includes the hit Invader Wars 1 as well as art scrawler Doodle Kids that has registered more than half a million downloads since it was posted on the iPhone App Store last year.
TODAYonline 2010
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Minor's theory is that the wall-scrawler was upset with a black student and wrote angrily, impulsively and perhaps drunkenly.
dispatch.com: RSS 2010
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