What is "illegible"

Usage examples of "illegible".

The use of thin inks would have caused spreading or blotting and thus rendered the writing illegible.

These records are original returns made by the city and town clerks, and from 1842 to 1889 show instances of the use of inks which are now almost illegible.

In part of one old volume of court records, the ink, while not injuring the paper or becoming illegible upon the face of the leaves, has gradually become legible upon the reverse, while the heavy paper has been impervious to the other inks used.

A small, hairless, closed-eye cross between a planarian and Khrushchev, ID tag illegible.

Whitaker Monk might have been any age between thirty-five and fifty-five, so non-committal was that lantern-jawed countenance of a droll, with its heavy, black, eloquent eyebrows, its high and narrow forehead merging into an extensive bald spot fringed with greyish hair, its rather small, blue, illegible eyes, its high-bridged nose and prominent nostrils, its wide and thin-lipped mouth, its rather startling pallor.

There he learned that paperwork on recent parolees was a month behind, but he got a nearly illegible mimeographed list of local parole offices.

Richard kept seeing him, in Red Lion Street, in the callbox, staring with terrible and illegible purpose at the crowded entrance of the language school.

The before ones were ratty, chewed, dirty, with their ink all but illegible and their colors faded to whispers.

The drawer was crammed with a chowchow of bills, most of them yellow and cracking with age, letters still shoved into embossed envelopes which bore illegible handwritten franks instead of postage marks or stamps, and little wads of notes issued by banks long collapsed.

Compared to the stellar William, his work is sloppy and his handwriting, so vital to landing a coveted clerking position, is nearly illegible.

Behind the desk and Lieutenant Mirchau's back hung, again symmetrically echeloned, six framed and glassed paper rectangles, illegible from where I was sitting.

Chapel to admire them, followed by the black marble altar tomb, assorted fan vaulting, and a monument with a particularly long and illegible inscription.

These misereres show the Seven Works of Mercy, and Tossie obediently went into the Girdlers Chapel to admire them, followed by the black marble altar tomb, assorted fan vaulting, and a monument with a particularly long and illegible inscription.

The remaining address was completely illegible, rain had run into her pocket and obliterated everything below the fold of the paper.

I began scribbling notes on a call sheet, my handwriting more illegible than usual, my central nervous system as crashed as a bad hard drive.