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
Some of them, I’m sure, don’t even look at the old stones, everywhere lurching this way or that, covered in lichens, inscriptions faded, sometimes to the point of illegibility.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
The untimely disturber proved to be a messenger bearing a note, scrawled almost to the point of illegibility, from an old Norseman by the name of Olaf Jansen.
From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Willis George Emerson
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