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scribbles

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scribbles.

Editorial note

The idea is to continue the animation, not to make random scribbles!

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To doodle.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scribbles gathered in one view.

verb

To doodle.

noun

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

verb

To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scribbles.

verb

To doodle.

noun

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

verb

To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

verb

(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

Example sentences

1

The idea is to continue the animation, not to make random scribbles!

2

Progress in physics can be very expensive and yet be represented as a few scribbles on a page).

3

Gruber's scenario with the two high school kids sending each other love taps, scribbles, and heartbeats was poignant.

4

It's fun to go back and look at some of my notes and scribbles from over 20 years ago.

5

It's easy to denigrate little glowing rectangles, but it's easy to denigrate scribbles on sheets of pressed wood pulp too.

6

That was my first thought as well - in comparison, medieval art looks like child's scribbles.

7

The idiot who, in railway carriages, Scribbles on window panes, We only suffer To ride on a buffer In Parliamentary trains.

8

Props tend to work to get people to trip up on their replies even if the prop is just a box that randomly scribbles on paper with absolutely zero scientific credibility.

9

Theoretically, couldn't this bot work to teach an OCR-bot to effectively recognize scribbles as letters?

10

Distinct from other 3G commenters here, though, I found it more than fast enough to keep up with my scribbles.

11

Usually, those first scribbles end up being my test cases.

12

It doesn't replace the notebook and endless scribbles and marginalia.

Quote examples

1

Having random scribbles, alt solutions and other "shitty" comments while working on a problem is definitely not a sin if you clean them up before pushing them forward.

2

If you had said instead "Inside you find a theory suggested by a discredited maniac who scribbles nonsense on his psych ward walls" then yes, it would have been click bait.

3

"Research" is probably an exaggeration, it was mostly some Googling on a Friday afternoon, and some whiteboard scribbles and reading the D-Wave docs.

4

It's akin to having a group of people sketching on a large piece of paper, trying to build on each other's marks to create an accurate representation of a scene, and someone comes in a scribbles all over it saying "but I see scribbles!

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use scribbles in a sentence?

The idea is to continue the animation, not to make random scribbles!

What does scribbles mean?

To doodle.

What part of speech is scribbles?

scribbles is commonly used as verb, noun.