scrawler
9.3
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
- noun
- /ˈskrɔːlər/
:
garabateador
- The teacher had a hard time reading the assignments submitted by her scrawler students.
Examples
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Even though he understood the material well, his reputation as a scrawler made it hard for others to take his work seriously.
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The last time there was a concerted effort to prosecute the scrawlers of slogans on walls was during the Nazi occupation of the city.
Academic text (1990) -
His notes were full of awkward diagrams and messy writing, revealing him to be quite the scrawler.
Synonyms
scribbler
vsscrawler
7.8
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
focuses on untidiness and unreadability rather than careless attitude
9.9
A person who writes badly with poor spelling or messy handwriting
is limited to poor handwriting appearance rather than broad writing errors
Antonyms
How Legible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word scrawler comes from scrawl, a word for messy writing, and a helpful way to remember it is to picture a pen 'crawling' across the page and leaving hard-to-read marks. So a scrawler is someone whose handwriting is untidy and difficult to read.