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cacography
(cac|og¦raphy)
Pronunciation:
/kəˈkɒgrəfi/
noun
[
mass noun
]
archaic
bad handwriting or spelling.
Derivatives
cacographer
noun
Origin:
late 16th century
: from Greek
kakos
'bad', on the pattern of
orthography
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