Scrawl

v. i.	1.	See Crawl.
v. t.	1.	To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.] His name, scrawled by himself. - Macaulay.
v. i.	1.	To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. - Swift.
n.	1.	Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. - Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. - Gray.

Noun	1.	scrawl - poor handwriting Synonyms: cacography, scribble, scratch
Verb	1.	scrawl - write carelessly Synonyms: scribble

barbouillage, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility, indecipherability, inscribe, pattes de mouche, pothookery, pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribbling, squiggle, undecipherability, unreadability