Definition of "cacography" [ca•cog•ra•phy]

• Bad handwriting. (noun)
• Bad spelling. (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.

• "And Nicodemus has a disability, called cacography, that causes him to misspell texts simply by touching them."
• "My error was to think "cacography" might have been linked with cack-handedness, an apposite connection for some of us."
• "Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician."