The note was written in his usual illegible scrawl.
便条上是他一贯潦草难认的字迹。
Examples from the Corpus
scrawl• You end up with walls lined with sheets of paper, or blackboards covered with artisticscrawl.• The note was written in Gwen's childishscrawl.• One looked safe enough, bearing, as it did, Mr Yarrow's distinctivescrawl.• It is covered with a hastyscrawl in Darwin's hand.• The top page was covered in scrawls and doodles.• I couldn't read the doctor's scrawl.• Nifty handwriting recognitionalgorithms can translate the user's scrawls into print - and can shrink them to fit if necessary.• I kept a diary then -- pages and pages of tiny scrawl.• The wall was covered with scrawls done with a bit of pencil lead.• What does it say? I can't read your scrawl!
Originscrawl1
(1600-1700) Perhaps from crawl, influenced by scrawl“to lie carelessly”((14-19 centuries))