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legibly

[ lej-uh-blee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that is capable of being easily read, deciphered, or discerned:

    The reason your printer isn’t printing legibly is that it’s low on toner.



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If people can’t read your captions, they won’t get the joke, so make sure your text is clearly legible.

A hammer, a skull, an elephant and the distinctive outline of Mickey Mouse’s head are among the clearly legible shapes cast on the apartment walls.

At eight in the evening he had copied a piece of music, not artistically but legibly, and Rousseau paid him the six cents.

The following diary was originally written in lead-pencil and in a book the leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly.

On the inside of it was a cross stamped very legibly, indicating that it was made by a christian.

Until my arrival he had been much embarrassed, neither knowing how to dictate nor to write legibly.

Be careful also to write legibly the name of your office as well as that of your county and state.

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