as in unreadable
incapable of being read or deciphered
illegible signatures on the petition will be disregarded
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Recent Examples of illegible
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Time For Kids, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
His talent was unmistakable, his ego was illegible and his time with us unforgettable.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, most of the candies in my box were illegible.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2025
The thirty-thousand-year-old cave paintings at Chauvet–Pont d’Arc are ghostly images from the abyss of deep time whose purpose is illegible to us.
—Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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Time For Kids, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
His talent was unmistakable, his ego was illegible and his time with us unforgettable.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, most of the candies in my box were illegible.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2025
The thirty-thousand-year-old cave paintings at Chauvet–Pont d’Arc are ghostly images from the abyss of deep time whose purpose is illegible to us.
—Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illegible
Adjective
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There are other snafus: The calligraphy on the place-setting cards is unreadable, and someone described as an energy medium has tried to muck around with the dining room’s musty feng shui.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The poster later shared a second image, revealing the drive's contents: a collection of unreadable files, lines of code and an unopened Excel spreadsheet.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Chicagoans may be following the back and forth between the City Council and Chicago Public Schools leadership over an obscure pension payment and wonder how does this affect me?—
Jason Ervin,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Couple that with obscure sourcing practices, harmful environmental impacts, and questionable animal welfare practices, and the cost of it all starts to add up.—
Sam Delgado,
Vox,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The sound mix can be a little fuzzy wuzzy at times, dropping whole stretches of lyrics into almost indecipherable murkiness.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2025
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The capability allowed users to encrypt almost all of their iCloud data, making messages, notes, photos and iPhone backups indecipherable, even when the information was stored in cloud computing centers.—
Tripp Mickle,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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My duties typically involved being sent to the nearby New York Public Library to hunt down some faint memory scratching at Carter’s brain.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy's assassination.—
Joel Shannon,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Hinton then offered an extremely detailed scientific explanation of why that's the case -- an explanation that would be undecipherable to anyone but an AI creator like himself.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
4 May 2023
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When the Giants finally chose Kadarius Toney, a wide receiver from the University of Florida, with the 20th pick in the N.F.L. draft, the team’s fans in Cleveland took a good 10 seconds to start a slow clap, mouthing undecipherable questions beneath their masks.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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The United Nations said one of its workers was killed and others injured in an explosion that hit a building housing U.N. personnel, adding that the circumstances of the incident remain unclear.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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The articles signaled Beijing's disapproval of the deal, though its actual impact remains unclear.—
Madison Herring,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Illegible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illegible. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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