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cacography

[ kuh-kog-ruh-fee ]
/ kəˈkɒg rə fi /
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noun

bad handwriting; poor penmanship.
incorrect spelling.

Words related to cacography

graffiti, graffito, hieroglyphics

Words nearby cacography

cacodylic acid, cacoepy, cacoethes, cacogenics, cacogeusia, cacography, cacology, cacomelia, cacomistle, caconym, cacophonous

Origin of cacography

First recorded in 1570–80; caco- + -graphy

OTHER WORDS FROM cacography

ca·cog·ra·pher, nouncac·o·graph·ic [kak-uh-graf-ik] /ˌkæk əˈgræf ɪk/, cac·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
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Examples 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 Trollope

  • I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.

    Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853|Various

  • A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.

    Claverhouse|Mowbray Morris

  • Most 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 handwritingCompare calligraphy
incorrect spellingCompare orthography

Derived forms of cacography

cacographer, nouncacographic (ˌkækəˈɡræfɪk) or cacographical, adjective
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