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handwriting
[ hand-rahy-ting ]
noun
- writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- a style or manner of writing by hand, especially that which characterizes a particular person; penmanship:
an eccentric handwriting.
- a handwritten document; manuscript.
handwriting
/ ˈæԻˌɪɪŋ /
noun
- writing by hand rather than by typing or printing
- a person's characteristic writing style
that signature is in my handwriting
Word History and Origins
Origin of handwriting1
Idioms and Phrases
- handwriting on the wall, a premonition, portent, or clear indication, especially of failure or disaster: Also writing on the wall.
The company had ignored the handwriting on the wall and was plunged into bankruptcy.
Example Sentences
He also accused me of stealing keys to a car I didn’t drive and drafting words written in his handwriting.
That student occasionally popped by her class to examine how her handwriting, but not her sentiment, had changed.
On the other hand, the sitter’s handwriting is also proof that the portrait was drawn from life, not copied from a photograph.
In July, the Washington Post reported that, based on a handwriting analysis, it believed it was Klein after all.
Next to her body was a note in her father's handwriting, which read: "Whoever see this note, it's me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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