1. to write or draw carelessly or hastily in an irregular way

1. 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.