Definitions for scrawls

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Spelling: [skrawl]

IPA: /skrɔl/

Scrawls is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in scrawls (aclrssw).

Definitions for scrawls

noun

1. awkward, careless, or illegible handwriting.
2. something scrawled, as a letter or a note.

verb (used with object)

1. to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to write awkwardly, carelessly, or illegibly.

Origin of scrawls

1605-15; perhaps to be identified with late Middle English scraule to sprawl, crawl (blend of sprawl and crawl¹)

Examples for scrawls

You must not mind the badness of my scrawl: and let me hear from you.

My fear is that you will not be able to decipher the scrawl written so hastily.

The senator's son read the scrawl, and his face showed his disgust.

Then, at last, he had gathered strength enough to scrawl these lines.

Artists would use pen names and scrawl them across subway cars, walls, shops, and office buildings.

She had evidently never speculated on the meaning of the scrawl that had saved her.

He preferred to scrawl his initials to any typewritten letter which I prepared.

That's Joe's own scrawl, and there ain't a worse from this to himself.

I felt the power in my fingernails to brand the earth with my own scrawl.

I do not know whether you can read the scrawl I have written, but I cannot write any better.