Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to cacography or bad writing; ill-written.
- Pertaining to or characterized by bad spelling; wrongly spelled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Displaying the properties of bad
spelling or bad handwriting or both.
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Examples
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Discussions between Shannon and Nicodemus and a class that cacographic latter lectures serve to enrich the history and environment of Spellwright without resorting to the tedium of worldbuilding.
Archive 2010-05-01 Jeff C 2010
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Discussions between Shannon and Nicodemus and a class that cacographic latter lectures serve to enrich the history and environment of Spellwright without resorting to the tedium of worldbuilding.
The Daily: May 6, 2010 Jeff C 2010
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I suggested that KO should retort that "yellow legal pad" believes that "cocktail napkin with cacographic scrawl" was in fact correct.
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Any teacher, at whatever level, might have experienced a jolt of recognition on looking at Gordon Brown's cacographic scrawl, drawing the astonished question: "Is the most powerful man in Britain dyslexic - and if so, how on earth did he keep it secret so long?"
Ephems of BLB 2009
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* These misspellings, or “cacographic” variations, were a little different from the phonetic vernacular used by the Southern “frame” writers and Sam Clemens’s “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass,” in that they seemed aimed less at mimicking the sounds of a distinct regional dialect than the capricious misspellings of an uneducated man.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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* These misspellings, or “cacographic” variations, were a little different from the phonetic vernacular used by the Southern “frame” writers and Sam Clemens’s “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass,” in that they seemed aimed less at mimicking the sounds of a distinct regional dialect than the capricious misspellings of an uneducated man.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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