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cacography
[ kuh-kog-ruh-fee ]
noun
- bad handwriting; poor penmanship.
- incorrect spelling.
cacography
/ kæˈkɒɡrəfɪ; ˌkækəˈɡræfɪk /
noun
- See calligraphybad handwriting Compare calligraphy
- See orthographyincorrect spelling Compare orthography
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Derived Forms
- caˈcographer, noun
- cacographic, adjective
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Other Words From
- ca·cogra·pher noun
- cac·o·graph·ic [kak-, uh, -, graf, -ik], caco·graphi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cacography1
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Example Sentences
He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.
Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas!
Furthermore, to Phœnix's devices he added cacography, the device of deliberate misspelling so much used by later humorists.
I 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.
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