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Cacography   Listen
noun
Cacography  n.  Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cacography" Quotes from Famous Books



... stenography; phonography^, pasigraphy^, Polygraphy^, logography^. copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist. calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand. cacography^, griffonage^, barbouillage^; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers. stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... beauty. It was at its best in the reign of James the First, of which period some specimens of writing have been preserved, exquisitely beautiful, and as legible as copper-plate. Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas! something horrible. Queen Elizabeth could write the Italian hand (and did it to perfection), but she has left on record that she ...
— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt



Words linked to "Cacography" :   squiggle, scratch, scrawl, script, chicken scratch, scribble



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