illegibility
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Prolonged dread is the mark of this moment, of its seeming inscrutability, its illegibility, where the improbable has become likely.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2023
The abstraction of the design renders its daytime illegibility a little less disappointing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2020
I was known, by then, as an overly conscientious student, and most of the teachers ignored the illegibility of my new handwriting.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
The sculptures Mr. Vo began making in 2015, for example, combine fragments of Roman marble statuary with slices of Medieval figures, especially wood images of the Madonna and Child eroded nearly beyond illegibility.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
It is true that inaccuracies may have crept in; but these will be found to be mostly among proper names—due in a great measure to the illegibility of the manuscripts furnished me by correspondents.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
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