scrawled; scrawling; scrawls
: to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly
scrawled his name
: to write awkwardly or carelessly
Examples of scrawl in a Sentence
She scrawled her signature on the receipt.
scrawled a quick note, stuck it in their mailbox, and hurried off
Recent Examples on the Web
Activists elsewhere have set fire to Tesla charging stations, scrawled swastikas into Tesla vehicles and sprayed graffiti on dealerships.
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Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Multiple vehicles were found spray-painted with swastikas, several of the dealership’s windows had been smashed and messages with profanity were scrawled on walls, the Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
—Christian Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Electors scrawl handwritten votes on slips of paper.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
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Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Multiple vehicles were found spray-painted with swastikas, several of the dealership’s windows had been smashed and messages with profanity were scrawled on walls, the Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
—Christian Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Electors scrawl handwritten votes on slips of paper.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrawl. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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