And if the petunias are beginning to look scrawly, there is nothing wrong with giving them a good trim back.

"It was printed scrawly on computer paper."

I immediately recognized Rodolfo's handwriting, more scrawly than usual, but readable.

There was script Tegger didn't recognize, square and curved and scrawly.

It was pretty scrawly.

Kind of scrawly.

The claim has long been made that the handwriting in part of one scene compares favorably with six scrawly Shakespeare signatures generally accepted as genuine.

Scrawly writing, quite legible.

What nice handwriting Logan had, not as scrawly as the way Tom wrote, or as precisely perfect as Pa's small script.

In scrawly black lines that recall Indian pictographic signs and urban grafitti, Mr. Kahlhamer populates these spaces with Indians in canoes, bison, flying eagles, smiley faces, stacked audio speakers and his own song lyrics.

As he sat slouched down upon his stool, his befogged vision struggling with the blurred and scrawly purple of the mimeographed bill-of-fare, the girl waiting across the counter from him for his order could scarce conceal the disgust she felt at his slovenly and unkempt appearance.