penmanship
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈpɛn.mən.ʃɪp/
- His penmanship was so neat that it made reading his notes easy.
- Palmer Method of Penmanship
- penmanship methods
- good penmanship
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Watch on YouTubeSo I think it's meant for when you're sat doing your fancy Japanese like penmanship or something.
- So I think it's meant for when you're sat doing your fancy Japanese like penmanship or something.
- So I said my penmanship, I thought that was pretty clever.
Examples
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Cecilia had beautiful penmanship.
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Very steady penmanship there, Mr. B.
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I used some penmanship and I wrote this letter.
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Your penmanship is impossible David.
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It's just... your penmanship is really remarkable.
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The penmanship is so confident.
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Studies show students are starting to show poor penmanship on tests and essays.
Blog text (17) -
My aunt sure had lousy penmanship.
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But she'd left a note by the phone in that distressingly perfect penmanship of hers.
Fiction book (1999) -
The teacher, alone in the classroom, was at his desk grading the penmanship lesson.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
137
1.4
The way a person writes letters and words by hand
15
7.1
Beautiful writing done by hand used for decoration or art
12
8.1
The way a person forms letters when they write
1
9.9
A person's neat, beautiful way of writing by hand
Antonyms
How Neat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Penmanship comes from pen, a writing tool, and the ending -manship, seen in craftsmanship, which means 'skill'. So, penmanship is the 'skill' of writing by hand, which is why it means neat or beautiful handwriting.