noun

• Bad handwriting or spelling.

  ‘‘We have a national affliction, and it's called cacography - that means ‘illegible handwriting.’’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.’
  • ‘And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.’
  • ‘It is amusing to notice his lectures to Jeffrey, on his cacography, which may be attributed to a similar restlessness of mind.’

  Synonyms

  illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle, squiggles, jottings