scribble

Speech parts

1. scribble - Noun

2. scribble - Verb

Meaning

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. Edmund Burke

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult "What is that?" Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Joyce Carol Oates

I started to "write" even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day. Isaac Bashevis Singer

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! Brian Jacques

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. Charles Keating, Jr.

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