Usually means: Written hastily and often illegibly.
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  1. scrawled: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrawled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scrawled: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scrawled, scrawled: Wordnik
  5. scrawled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scrawled: Wiktionary
  7. scrawled: Dictionary.com
  8. scrawled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scrawled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. scrawled: Rhymezone
  11. Scrawled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. scrawled: FreeDictionary.org
  13. scrawled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrawled: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.

Similar:
written, rushed, slack-handed, roughdrawn, quick-and-dirty, otiose, half-assed, quick-handed, drive-by, fast-handed, more...

Opposite:
neat, legible, tidy, well-written

Types:
scribbled, doodled, sketched, chalked, crayoned, more...

Phrases:
scrawled in, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     ink black,     slate gray,     midnight blue, more...



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Similar:
written, rushed, slack-handed, roughdrawn, quick-and-dirty, otiose, half-assed, quick-handed, drive-by, fast-handed, more...

Opposite:
neat, legible, tidy, well-written

Types:
scribbled, doodled, sketched, chalked, crayoned, more...

Phrases:
scrawled in, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     ink black,     slate gray,     midnight blue, more...



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