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noun ADJ. clear, good, legible, neat Her handwriting was neat and legible. | awful, bad, illegible, poor, terrible Why do doctors have such terrible handwriting? VERB + HANDWRITING have | read Her handwriting is very difficult to read. | recognize I didn't recognize the handwriting on the envelope. PREP. in your ~ She copied out the lines in her best handwriting.
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handwriting
adjectives
neat/clear
• Your handwriting is much neater than mine.
legible/illegible
(= written clearly/not written clearly enough for you to read )
• He writes very quickly and his handwriting is almost illegible.
small/tiny
• Her handwriting was so tiny I couldn’t read it without my glasses.
bad/poor/terrible/awful
• Why do doctors have such terrible handwriting?
good/lovely/beautiful
• He wrote, in his lovely handwriting, a letter asking Ramsey to visit him.
sb’s best handwriting
• In his best handwriting, he wrote, 'Happy Father’s Day, Dad'.
verbs
have neat/small etc handwriting
• Yu Yin has tiny handwriting.
recognize sb’s handwriting
• Marcus didn’t recognize the handwriting on the envelope.
read sb’s handwriting
• I’m afraid I find it very difficult to read your handwriting.
handwriting + NOUN
a handwriting expert
(= someone who studies people's handwriting )
• A handwriting expert has confirmed that the letter was almost certainly written by Bateman.
phrases
in sb’s own handwriting
• Entry forms must be in the candidate’s own handwriting.
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