cacography

[ kuh-kog-ruh-fee ]

/ kəˈkɒg rə fi /

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noun

bad handwriting; poor penmanship.

incorrect spelling.

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Origin of cacography

First recorded in 1570–80; caco- + -graphy

OTHER WORDS FROM cacography

ca·cog·ra·pher, nouncac·o·graph·ic

[kak-uh-graf-ik], /ˌkæk əˈgræf ɪk/, cac·o·graph·i·cal, adjective

Words nearby cacography

cacodylic, cacodylic acid, cacoepy, cacoëthes, cacogenics, cacography, cacology, cacomistle, caconym, cacophonous, cacophony

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How to use cacography in a sentence

He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.
Thackeray|Anthony Trollope
Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas!
Joyce Morrell's Harvest|Emily Sarah Holt
Furthermore, to Phœnix's devices he added cacography, the device of deliberate misspelling so much used by later humorists.
A History of American Literature Since 1870|Fred Lewis Pattee
I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.
Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853|Various

A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.
Claverhouse|Mowbray Morris

British Dictionary definitions for cacography

cacography

/ (kæˈkɒɡrəfɪ) /

noun

bad handwritingCompare calligraphy

incorrect spellingCompare orthography

Derived forms of cacography

cacographer, nouncacographic (ˌkækəˈɡræfɪk) or cacographical, adjective

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