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What is the adjective for scribbling?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb scribble which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

scribbly
  1. Like a scribble; roughly scrawled; illegible or messy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. squiggly, wavy, snaky, crooked, curved, curvy, meandering, bumpy, wobbly, irregular … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “What's with that rad Marc Jacobs shirt, with the scribbly skulls and slept-in appearance?”
      “A scribbly pencil line cut through the clumps of paint or twisted around the perimeter.”
      “At least, I assume that the scribbly zigzag line is Tony's signature and not something the bookshop asked one of their junior staff to forge.”
scribblesome
  1. Characteristic of scribbling; scribbly
scribblier
  1. comparative form of scribbly: more scribbly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. squigglier, wavier, snakier, curvier, bumpier, wobblier, more crooked, more curved, more meandering, more irregular … more
scribbliest
  1. superlative form of scribbly: most scribbly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. squiggliest, waviest, snakiest, curviest, bumpiest, wobbliest, most crooked, most curved, most meandering, most irregular … more
scribbled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scribble
  2. Synonyms:
      3. took, wrote, drafted, jotted, noted, recorded, transcribed, documented, logged, minuted, registered, scrawled, scribed, scripted, jotted down, noted down, set down, took down, wrote down, wrote up, committed to paper, draughted, made a note of, put in writing, writ, put down, put down on paper, put on paper, put in black and white, put pen to paper, written, list, put on record, put down in black and white, penned, pent, composed, authored, doodled, inscribed, entered, marked down, written down, squiggled, sketched, indited, listed, marked, posted, pencilled … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The scribbled note left on the desk was barely legible, hastily written in a panic.”
scribbling
  1. present participle of scribble
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scrawling, squiggling, scratching, doodling, jotting, drawing, writing, penning, scrabbling, writing illegibly, jotting down, writing hurriedly, writing untidily, dashing off, writing badly, writing erratically, scratching out, authoring, composing, drafting, inscribing, noting, formulating, penciling, pencilling, writing down, setting down, taking down, putting in writing, drawing up, committing to paper, putting down on paper, putting in black and white, roughing out, inditing, engrossing, autographing, recording, logging … more
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