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scrawl

verb as in write erratically

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By the end of October, the prime minister's frustration is obvious in the long note he scrawls at the end of a Covid briefing document marked OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE.

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Woo screams, jumping on Autumn’s shoulder and peering at what Ama is scrawling.

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“Biscuits would be good, too,” she whispered, scrawling the word onto the list.

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Judging from his near-desperate social media posting about the whole thing being a “hoax,” it’s hard to imagine him putting his scrawl on that law.

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They were scrawled across sidewalks, proclaimed on banners, repeated on the street and the tram, spoken at the hospital, at home, by his wife, by his children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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