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Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.

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Usage examples (4)
  • This is a fine griffonage, to be sure! but I have not patience to write prettily; if you can only read it, it will do well enough.
  • But I must reserve a description of these trips until another letter, as I am sure you will be heartily tired by the time you have got through my griffonage.
  • “trumpery,” as Captain Mirven unkindly calls the paraphernalia of the ladies, and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.
  • Excuse mon griffonage.
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