scrawling
present participle ofscrawl
scrawl
verb[T]
uk/skrɔːl/us/skrɑːl/to write somethingquickly, withouttryingto makeyourwritingtidyoreasytoread:
I scrawled aquicknotetoJudith and put it under herdoor.
Someone had scrawledgraffitiacrossthewall.
Synonym
scribble
Writing & typing
- asemic
- bashsomethingout
- borrow
- calligrapher
- carriage return
- fair
- jot
- minute
- overwrite
- re-registration
- readability
- recompose
- reformulate
- registration
- rekey
- scribble
- tab
- unwritten
- writ
- writing
Examplesofscrawling
scrawling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Others are sent outside to play unsupervised in the streets, and many of them drift intoscrawlinggraffiti, vandalism and crime.
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At present, a council does not have power to remove or obliterate these nasty, evil scrawlings.
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The travelling public may be chiefly to blame here, because they make a fearful mess of many of them byscrawlingall over them.
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It has taken a very long time for man to write his history up to date—a painful effort, much of it merescrawlingand scribbling, but it has been written.
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Salamat was 12 years old when he was accused ofscrawlinga blasphemous slogan on a wall, although, according to his defence lawyer, he was illiterate.
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His appearance was supplemented by an extremely slowscrawlingof his signature across the screen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He finished off his outfit byscrawlinghis number on the back in magic marker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her own hand wasscrawlingand childlike.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The eggs are white with blackscrawling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was a solitary time which she remembered as a lot of sitting in cafs, newspaper crosswords andscrawlingin notebooks before any songs took shape.
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- nonsense mutation
- nonsense syllable
- nonsense-syllable
- nonsense verse
- nonsense-verse
- nonsense word
- nonsense-word
- nonsensical
- nonsensical argument
- non-sensitive
- non-sensitive
- non-sentence
- non-sentence
- non-sequential
- non-sequential
- non-sequentially
- non-sequentially
- non sequitur
- non-sequitur
- non-serious
- non-serious
- non-sexist
- non-sexist
- non-sexual
- non-sexual