scrawly

How to use scrawly in a sentence

• You better hold up there, scrawly, if you don't want to try the depth of that gutter.

  Ester Ried Yet Speaking | Isabella Alden

• And every week or so a very scrawly epistle, usually on yellow tablet paper, arrives from Princeton.

  Daddy Long-Legs | Jean Webster

• He knew this far better than the poor, scrawly, uncultivated handwriting which he had seen so little.

  The Minister's Charge | William Dean Howells

• A mist came up out of the past and blurred the scrawly letters until they swam before my eyes and faded out of sight.

  Neighbours | Robert Stead

• She looked at her friend curiously, as Molly glanced at the address written in a rather large, scrawly masculine hand.

  Molly Brown's Senior Days | Nell Speed