Scrawl

(v. i.) See Crawl.

(v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.

(v. i.) To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

(n.) Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

吉恩编辑

• Read that scrawl. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had got somebody to scrawl it up for him, however, who had squeezed Death in with most inappropriate difficulty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• For ordinary copying work, where much time is occupied in deciphering the illegible scrawl, probably forty words a minute is the average work. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It was he who invented that writing, which would pass as a child's scrawl unless you just happened to have the key to it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Such an incoherent scrawl I never had known him nor anybody else write before! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They were scrawled with chalk. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled: Drive him fast to his tomb. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Doubtless he had been detained, or had misread her hurriedly scrawled note, taking the four for a five. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• After pausing for some time, he slowly scrawls upon it in a hand that is not his, Chesney Wold? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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