scrawl

scrawl /skr'ɔːl/ (scrawls scrawling scrawled)
1 [VERB] V n prep, V with quote, V-ed
If you scrawl something, you write it in a careless and untidy way.
He scrawled a hasty note to his wife...
Someone had scrawled `Scum' on his car.
...racist graffiti scrawled on school walls.
2 [N-VAR]
You can refer to writing that looks careless and untidy as a scrawl.
The letter was handwritten, in a hasty, barely decipherable scrawl.

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