0 present participle of scrawl
1 to write something quickly, without trying to make your writing tidy or easy to read:
Others are sent outside to play unsupervised in the streets, and many of them drift into scrawling graffiti, vandalism and crime.
At present, a council does not have power to remove or obliterate these nasty, evil scrawlings.
The travelling public may be chiefly to blame here, because they make a fearful mess of many of them by scrawling all over them.
It has taken a very long time for man to write his history up to date—a painful effort, much of it mere scrawling and scribbling, but it has been written.
Salamat was 12 years old when he was accused of scrawling a blasphemous slogan on a wall, although, according to his defence lawyer, he was illiterate.
His appearance was supplemented by an extremely slow scrawling of his signature across the screen.
He finished off his outfit by scrawling his number on the back in magic marker.
Her own hand was scrawling and childlike.
