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  • adverb In a way that scrawls or scribbles.

Etymologies

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scrawling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Opening the book, he usually would discover strange pencilled pictures drawn scrawlingly over many of the pages.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • But one morning a letter came to me so scrawlingly addressed that I marvelled at the ability of the postal authorities in deciphering it.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • But one morning a letter came to me so scrawlingly addressed that I marvelled at the ability of the postal authorities in deciphering it.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • _ And, wonderingly, he read on the white page the words and the name written by Alice herself, scrawlingly but distinctly, the day before in the garden of Notre-Dame.

    Through the Wall Cleveland Moffett 1894

  • Inspector partner could chalk scrawlingly "O.K." upon his sundry pieces of baggage.

    The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Various 1885

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