writer's cramp
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Udall mistook for weakness in the farmers' handshakes was only fatigue from writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Perhaps it's writer's cramp," said Cleggett, indulging the pleasant humor that was on him.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis
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