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cacography

[ kuh-kog-ruh-fee ]

noun

  1. bad handwriting; poor penmanship.
  2. incorrect spelling.


cacography

/ kæˈkɒɡrəfɪ; ˌkækəˈɡræfɪk /

noun

  1. bad handwriting Compare calligraphy
  2. incorrect spelling Compare orthography


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Derived Forms

  • caˈcographer, noun
  • cacographic, adjective

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Other Words From

  • ca·cogra·pher noun
  • cac·o·graph·ic [kak-, uh, -, graf, -ik], caco·graphi·cal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cacography1

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

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Example Sentences

He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.

Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas!

Furthermore, to Phœnix's devices he added cacography, the device of deliberate misspelling so much used by later humorists.

I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.

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

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