Cacography
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English
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Etymology
Greek κακÏÏ (kakos, bad) + γÏαÏÎ¿Ï (graphos, writing). Believed to have been introduced in the late sixteenth century, with the emergence of printing technologies and standard lexicon, the need for orthographic spelling was mandatory as opposed to the prior method of spelling upon personal preference.
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Noun
cacography
- Bad spelling.
- Bad handwriting.
- The act of exhibiting these traits
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Synonyms
- crabbed
- cramped
- faint
- hieroglyphic
- illegible
- indecipherable
- indistinct
- obscure
- scrawled
- unclear
- undecipherable
- unintelligible
- unreadable
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Antonyms
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Usage note
seldom spoken