illegibility
Americannoun
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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
And Heinz Peter Knes’ seemingly random display of six photographs — the artist’s feet, the rear end of a donkey sculpture, an unfocused wall and other mundane sites — are cryptic to the point of bland illegibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
A track worn by the caravans of ages exists,—sometimes parallel ruts for a width of half a mile, sometimes not two yards wide, and now and then lapsing into illegibility.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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