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, awkward writer.

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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scrawl +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Alternatively, the scrawler might also have written, "This is American justice."

    James Heffernan: What Does the President Mean by "Justice"? 2008

  • This opinionated scrawler first takes his or her catty toll on the visage of Ms. Sharon Stone.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Michelle Collins 2006

  • He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • 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

  • 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").

    Tax Incentives I'd Like to See 1996

  • No backstreet scrawler upon walls could ever do that to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, however.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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