scrawled; scrawling; scrawls
: to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly
scrawled his name
: to write awkwardly or carelessly
Examples of scrawl in a Sentence
She scrawled her signature on the receipt.
scrawled a quick note, stuck it in their mailbox, and hurried off
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Isla delivers much of this information in the pilot via a sunny voiceover, punctuated by freeze-frame introductions of characters featuring their name and job title scrawled on the screen in meticulously messy yellow text.
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EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
To the team’s first World Series title, with Hedges entering the hitters’ meeting before every postseason game in his jockstrap, marking the number of wins needed for a championship with eye black scrawled on his naked butt cheek.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Daniella Pineda and Simmons also star in the film, though Simmons appears to spend most of the film as a corpse with a clue scrawled on his forearm.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
To the team’s first World Series title, with Hedges entering the hitters’ meeting before every postseason game in his jockstrap, marking the number of wins needed for a championship with eye black scrawled on his naked butt cheek.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Daniella Pineda and Simmons also star in the film, though Simmons appears to spend most of the film as a corpse with a clue scrawled on his forearm.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrawl. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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