[
UK
/skɹˈɪbəl/
]
[ US /ˈskɹɪbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈskɹɪbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an aimless drawing
- poor handwriting
VERB
- write carelessly
- write down quickly without much attention to detail
How To Use scribble In A Sentence
- I drew a smiley face, played tic-tac-toe with myself, drew another smiley face, scribbled all over it and finally, I wiped the ink off the plastic table.
- Not only will you be made a laughing-stock of, but some scribbler, some ink-splasher will put you into a comedy. The Inspector-General
- Coach scribbled his name and grumbled, “You could have asked her in the first place.” Parents Behaving Badly
- We know that because of the little messages they have scribbled on the wall. Times, Sunday Times
- I had aced the course in high school, so what were these hieroglyphics that the professor scribbled on the blackboard with such gusto?
- The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
- The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind.
- He reviewed pages of typed medical records and scribbled notes that charted with clinical precision each sailors fatal wounds: Blast injury to brain, Multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds, Exsanguination from complete transection of body. The Attack on the Liberty
- Scribbled in biro, in one corner, was the name of Keith Proctor and his address. THE RHYTHM SECTION
- Scribbled in her untidy scrawl were the words I love Nate Litz written across her macadam driveway in a pale rose-colored chalk.