scrawler

Thân thiện

The teacher asked the scrawler to rewrite the assignment neatly.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who writes in a careless, hurried, or illegible manner: A scrawler is someone whose handwriting is messy, difficult to decipher, and often appears hastily written.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The doctor's prescription was so messy that he was known as the worst scrawler in the hospital.
  • As a notorious scrawler, her lecture notes were completely useless to her classmates.
  • The teacher asked the student, a consistent scrawler, to rewrite his essay more neatly.

Advanced Usage

• Used descriptively: The term often carries a mildly critical or humorous tone, describing not just poor handwriting but a habitual tendency toward it.
  • For a celebrated author, he was an infamous scrawler, and his manuscripts were a challenge for editors.

Variants and Related Words

• Scrawl (verb/noun): To write hastily or illegibly / Writing that is messy and hard to read.

  • He managed to scrawl a quick note before leaving.
  • The document was filled with an unintelligible scrawl.

• Scribbler (noun): A person who writes carelessly or hastily. (This is a close synonym but can also imply writing a lot of unimportant things).

Synonyms

• Illegible writer
• Careless writer
• Scribbler

Related Phrases

• To have a scrawl: To possess messy handwriting.
  • I'm afraid I have a bit of a scrawl, so please bear with me.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read

Từ đồng nghĩa

• scribbler