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verbˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl [with object]1Write or draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly. he took the clipboard and scribbled something illegible no object hastily he scribbled in the margin Example sentencesExamples - He quickly scribbled down what he was to tell her, feeling like an idiot.
- Lenny scribbled on his pad of paper, then turned his eyes to me.
- And apparently when I was a kid; I use to scribble in books with a pen before I could even write so I was always trying to do something.
- I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front.
- He hastily scribbled an apologetic note and left it on Pierre's sleeping form.
- They began to whisper, and one man scribbled on a spiral notepad.
- Marcia scribbled furiously in her own notebook, apparently quite preoccupied with whatever part of her story she was writing.
- He sat there the whole period grunting to himself and scribbling furiously in his notebooks.
- He frowned, scribbling madly on his clipboard.
- I hurriedly scribbled his phone number on a pad of paper with trembling hands and hung up.
- I kept writing then scribbling out then writing again then scribbling out words at random.
- When we got back he'd managed to scribble a few lines in his notebook with his dud hand.
- I listened to him and I remembered my own thoughts scribbled in a diary.
- Gabrielle was furiously scribbling down what she was saying when she heard another boys' voice in her ear.
- The waitress nodded and scribbled on her order pad, handing them menus.
- He didn't have any choice anyway, so Kelvin scribbled his signature on the end.
- I opened it and found a hastily scribbled note smudged in places by water droplets.
- Officials had to place his hand on documents for him to scribble his signature.
Synonyms write hurriedly, write untidily, write illegibly, scratch, scrawl, doodle, dash off, jot (down) - 1.1informal no object Write for a living or as a hobby.
they scribbled, potted, and painted Example sentencesExamples - In those cases, I feel duty-bound to scribble a few paragraphs.
- She scribbles frantically on sheets of paper, then hunts through desk drawers for more writing material.
- To her writing was something she loved to do - she never cared whether she won plaudits from critics, she was happy to scribble whenever a story came to her.
- And as far as I'm concerned, other people can scribble whatever they want about it.
- I'm sure many of my colleagues are frantically scribbling away on their bestsellers in their spare time.
nounˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl A piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly. mass noun the postman would never be able to decipher your scribble Example sentencesExamples - I scratched my head and looked down at the scribbles in my notebook.
- But is not the taking seriously of this kind of comment the equivalent of the exhibition curator placing an artist's kitchen table scribble alongside one of his major drawings?
- Over each print are differently colored washes and scribbles.
- Inspired by notes and scribbles already on the pages, Byron commenced a program of drawing, painting and collage.
- Although the pilot creates confident spurts of white, the lines eventually pull apart, becoming just scribbles in the sky.
- The brothers practice an idiom of grandly lyric, gestural abstraction - scrawls and scribbles across a compositional field of contrasting grounds, currently silk and lead.
- Before that I made these dream journals and they were filled with poetry and scribbles.
- In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself.
- The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind.
- All of them contain organic, cell-like splotches, dots and drips of predominantly pastel colors that are overlaid with black lines, darker scribbles and cryptic hieroglyphs.
- As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring.
- The scribble does something besides provide a sense of enclosure, however: it creates a landmark.
- The designers have taught me how to use proper proofing marks rather than random scribbles.
- Mysterious psychedelic scribbles fill other windows, some with a figure caught within the web of marks.
- I was asleep one night in Hollywood and woke up one morning with my notepad full of scribble and I read it.
- You give these words, meaningless scribbles, you give them life and shape.
- The students nodded and made various scribbles in their notebooks.
- He smears the hues and tears the forms and scribbles across the surface in a kind of eloquent frenzy.
Synonyms illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle(s), jottings rare cacography
Derivatives adjectivescribblier, scribbliest With a nearly unreadable signature (everyone knew his scribbly writing anyway), Jerry signed his name and anxiously took his seat at the back of the room, polishing his silver-painted tuba. Example sentencesExamples - Drawn with a relaxed ink line, scribbly shading and a mix of watercolour and gouache, the book has the slightly muted and nostalgic tones of early comics and dated toy packaging.
- Technology and inspired creativity have taken the scribbly, animated style of that music video that everyone remembers and turned it into an innovative, impressionist art form for the silver screen.
- At least, I assume that the scribbly zigzag line is Tony's signature and not something the bookshop asked one of their junior staff to forge.
- A scribbly pencil line cut through the clumps of paint or twisted around the perimeter.
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere 'write'. Rhymes dibble, dribble, fribble, Gribble, kibble, nibble, quibble verbˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl [with object]often as noun scribblingCard (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely. machinery used for scribbling and spinning Example sentencesExamples - It derives its name from Scribbling Herse, a frame on which the cloth when first made was stretched in order that it might be scribbled.
- The first set of papers is the diary, from 1808 to 1814, of Joseph Rogerson, who ran a mill to which the clothiers brought their wool to be scribbled and prepared for spinning.
- Afterwards it is oiled with Gallipoli oil, scribbled, carded, slabed, and spun.
Origin Late 17th century: probably from Low German; compare with German schrubbeln (in the same sense), frequentative of Low German schrubben 'to scrub'. verbˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl [with object]1Write or draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly. he took the clipboard and scribbled something illegible no object hastily he scribbled in the margin Example sentencesExamples - Marcia scribbled furiously in her own notebook, apparently quite preoccupied with whatever part of her story she was writing.
- I kept writing then scribbling out then writing again then scribbling out words at random.
- Officials had to place his hand on documents for him to scribble his signature.
- They began to whisper, and one man scribbled on a spiral notepad.
- He didn't have any choice anyway, so Kelvin scribbled his signature on the end.
- Gabrielle was furiously scribbling down what she was saying when she heard another boys' voice in her ear.
- He frowned, scribbling madly on his clipboard.
- I opened it and found a hastily scribbled note smudged in places by water droplets.
- When we got back he'd managed to scribble a few lines in his notebook with his dud hand.
- He sat there the whole period grunting to himself and scribbling furiously in his notebooks.
- I listened to him and I remembered my own thoughts scribbled in a diary.
- I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front.
- I hurriedly scribbled his phone number on a pad of paper with trembling hands and hung up.
- He quickly scribbled down what he was to tell her, feeling like an idiot.
- Lenny scribbled on his pad of paper, then turned his eyes to me.
- The waitress nodded and scribbled on her order pad, handing them menus.
- He hastily scribbled an apologetic note and left it on Pierre's sleeping form.
- And apparently when I was a kid; I use to scribble in books with a pen before I could even write so I was always trying to do something.
Synonyms write hurriedly, write untidily, write illegibly, scratch, scrawl, doodle, dash off, jot, jot down - 1.1informal no object Write for a living or as a hobby.
she spent her last years scribbling and painting Example sentencesExamples - To her writing was something she loved to do - she never cared whether she won plaudits from critics, she was happy to scribble whenever a story came to her.
- She scribbles frantically on sheets of paper, then hunts through desk drawers for more writing material.
- I'm sure many of my colleagues are frantically scribbling away on their bestsellers in their spare time.
- And as far as I'm concerned, other people can scribble whatever they want about it.
- In those cases, I feel duty-bound to scribble a few paragraphs.
nounˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl A piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly. he would never be able to decipher your scribble Example sentencesExamples - The scribble does something besides provide a sense of enclosure, however: it creates a landmark.
- You give these words, meaningless scribbles, you give them life and shape.
- In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself.
- As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring.
- I was asleep one night in Hollywood and woke up one morning with my notepad full of scribble and I read it.
- The students nodded and made various scribbles in their notebooks.
- Mysterious psychedelic scribbles fill other windows, some with a figure caught within the web of marks.
- The brothers practice an idiom of grandly lyric, gestural abstraction - scrawls and scribbles across a compositional field of contrasting grounds, currently silk and lead.
- Before that I made these dream journals and they were filled with poetry and scribbles.
- He smears the hues and tears the forms and scribbles across the surface in a kind of eloquent frenzy.
- But is not the taking seriously of this kind of comment the equivalent of the exhibition curator placing an artist's kitchen table scribble alongside one of his major drawings?
- All of them contain organic, cell-like splotches, dots and drips of predominantly pastel colors that are overlaid with black lines, darker scribbles and cryptic hieroglyphs.
- The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind.
- The designers have taught me how to use proper proofing marks rather than random scribbles.
- Over each print are differently colored washes and scribbles.
- I scratched my head and looked down at the scribbles in my notebook.
- Although the pilot creates confident spurts of white, the lines eventually pull apart, becoming just scribbles in the sky.
- Inspired by notes and scribbles already on the pages, Byron commenced a program of drawing, painting and collage.
Synonyms illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle, squiggles, jottings
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere ‘write’. verbˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl [with object]often as noun scribblingCard (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely. machinery used for scribbling and spinning Example sentencesExamples - It derives its name from Scribbling Herse, a frame on which the cloth when first made was stretched in order that it might be scribbled.
- Afterwards it is oiled with Gallipoli oil, scribbled, carded, slabed, and spun.
- The first set of papers is the diary, from 1808 to 1814, of Joseph Rogerson, who ran a mill to which the clothiers brought their wool to be scribbled and prepared for spinning.
Origin Late 17th century: probably from Low German; compare with German schrubbeln (in the same sense), frequentative of Low German schrubben ‘to scrub’. |