Definition of "scrawl" [scrawl]

• To write hastily or illegibly. (verb-transitive)
• To write in a sprawling, irregular manner. (verb-intransitive)
• Irregular, often illegible handwriting. (noun)
• Something, such as a note, written hastily or illegibly. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "For anyone who has been unlucky enough to befall the horrors of my handwriting, firstly I say I’m sorry – but secondly – if I did that, I would have no idea what I have just written – much less the scrawl from a day ago. thank goodness for spellchecker as my typing is just as bad – but at least the letters are uniformly shaped."
• "This series of paintings takes as its title a scrawl of graffiti on a rock-cut along the Trans Canada Highway near Sudbury."
• "I recall the scrawl that ran just below the "McDonald's": "10,000 hamburgers served.""