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Scribbled

Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-bl[i^]ng).] [From Scribe.]

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

  2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

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scribbled

vb. (en-past of: scribble)

Usage examples of "scribbled".

The mingled sacred and profane smoke lofted a succession of small paper balloons, bearing tiny animal sacrifices or scribbled prayers, to the midday sky and to the gods.

From the stack of invitations he selected theirs, scribbled a ballpoint signature at the bottom, and dropped the reply in the nearest box.

She is sitting on the floor, surrounded by his periodicals, reading the notes he has scribbled into several canary-yellow legal tablets.

She tore the hastily scribbled pages from the pad and returned it to him.

A noble ambition, but many of these epistles were nothing more than scribbled threats on peeled beer mats and ripped up fag packets, dark truths and even darker lies.

Look, my body is getting shrivelled and the bath water going cold, my log book damp as these notes are scribbled in this bath.

Head bent to hide her smile, Diana scribbled a few final comments into her notebook while he dealt with the remaining fans.

He scribbled on a piece of paper and had it ready to hand to her when she returned.

The customs officer sketched a salute and scribbled with his coloured chalk.

She watched sideways as Bond put his watch and the contents of his pockets into the envelope and scribbled his name on it.

A search of his clothing had revealed a set of car keys, a single wrap of heroin, and a scribbled list of mobile numbers.

Stapleton nodded and scribbled himself a note before looking up again.

Harry bent low to retrieve the book, and as he did so, he saw something scribbled along the bottom of the back cover in the same small, cramped handwriting as the instructions that had won him his bottle of Felix Felicis, now safely hidden inside a pair of socks in his trunk upstairs.

The more Harry pored over the book, the more he realized how much was in there, not only the handy hints and shortcuts on potions that was earning him such a glowing reputation with Slughorn, but also the imaginative little jinxes and hexes scribbled in the margins, which Harry was sure, judging by the crossings-out and revisions, that the Prince had invented himself.

Harry turned the book sideways so as to examine more closely the scribbled instructions for a spell that seemed to have caused the Prince some trouble.