cacography
[ kuh-kog-ruh-fee ]
/ kəˈkɒg rə fi /
noun
bad handwriting; poor penmanship.
incorrect spelling.
OTHER WORDS FROM cacography
ca·cog·ra·pher, noun cac·o·graph·ic [kak-uh-graf-ik] /ˌkæk əˈgræf ɪk/, cac·o·graph·i·cal, adjectiveWords nearby cacography
cacodylic acid,
cacoepy,
cacoethes,
cacogenics,
cacogeusia,
cacography,
cacology,
cacomelia,
cacomistle,
caconym,
cacophonous
Example sentences from the Web for cacography
He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.
Thackeray |Anthony TrollopeI am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.
A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.
Claverhouse |Mowbray MorrisMost lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas!
Joyce Morrell's Harvest |Emily Sarah Holt
British Dictionary definitions for cacography
cacography
/ (kæˈkɒɡrəfɪ) /
noun
bad handwriting
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incorrect spelling
Compare orthography