verb
- to write or draw carelessly or hastily in an irregular way
noun
- careless or hasty handwriting that is difficult to read
Examples
- She scrawled her phone number on a napkin.
- The doctor scrawled a prescription that the pharmacist could barely read.
- He scrawled his signature across the bottom of the page.
- The child scrawled colorful drawings all over the wall.
- I couldn’t understand his scrawl in the margins of the book.
- Her hurried scrawl was nearly impossible to decipher.
- The note was written in such a messy scrawl that nobody could read it.