Definition of “scrawl”

A huge smile creases Ajit Singh's face as he reads the untidy scrawl on the medical report on his wife's third pregnancy.

As we picked up speed he'd scrawl a few words, rip out the sheet and pass it to Rachel.

At the Teeple Architects CitySpaces installation, a bold scrawl of wire by Toronto artist Susuke.

Cursive writing has become an endangered skill - replaced with print or linked script which would do a doctor's scrawl proud.

Jacob Tournier had written two pages of large, almost indecipherable scrawl.

Only repetition, like a scrawl caught between mirrors, its echoes looking like order, like meaning, but being neither.

The awkward scrawl of her name on the outside was not encouraging.

They looked even more magical in the days when they were written in indecipherable runic scrawl.

What was written on the sheets similarly ran the gamut: from perfect copperplate to a chaotic scrawl.