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n. - Poor handwriting.

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  • And Nicodemus has a disability, called cacography, that causes him to misspell texts simply by touching them.
  • My error was to think "cacography" might have been linked with cack-handedness, an apposite connection for some of us.
  • I love new words, one of my favourites was cacography and another, deltiology both of which apply to me.
  • Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician.
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