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synonyms for cacography

  • graffiti
  • graffito
  • griffonage
  • hieroglyphics
See also synonyms for: cacographic
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How to use cacography in a sentence

He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.
THACKERAYANTHONY TROLLOPE
Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas!
JOYCE MORRELL'S HARVESTEMILY SARAH HOLT
Furthermore, to Phœnix's devices he added cacography, the device of deliberate misspelling so much used by later humorists.
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870FRED LEWIS PATTEE
I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 185, MAY 14, 1853VARIOUS
A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.
CLAVERHOUSEMOWBRAY MORRIS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO CACOGRAPHY

  • cacography
  • graffiti
  • graffito
  • griffonage
  • hieroglyphics
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