illegible
IPA: ɪɫˈɛdʒʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.
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Examples of "illegible" in Sentences
- Your letter of June 18th from [gap word illegible] is at hand.
- Why do you say that? she asks, her expression illegible in the dark.
- To print books is a little more difficult, because genius so often rejoices in illegible handwriting.
- Warning: when they check the signatures the term "illegible" is often used quite liberally and they may try to discard MANY signatures with that bogus claim.
- The words on the banner were illegible from the sidewalk, but from office windows inside the tower the slogan on the banner could be clearly read: “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”
- Indeed, it has only one drawback, and that probably is regarded as an advantage by the profesors; it is that one's mistakes may be detected at a glance; for there is no chance to hide them in illegible writing.
- These Navy awards were a result of an assault behind enemy lines in which the SEAL unit was sent in to free friendly Vietnamese who were held captive an {one word illegible} in which half of the Americans were lost in combat.
- Most pernicious consequences [would follow (?) _ -- illegible in MS_.] and many other districts would be disloyal and rebellious; and it would be necessary, when they should have sufficient religious instruction, to go back and win them and [_illegible in MS_.] anew.
- It hadn't really occurred to me before that you could have serif, sans serif, modern and antique Korean typefaces before (because I'd never really thought about it) and I began to realise that I'd only ever seen 'foreign' type on documents intended for western audiences - hence Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic always looked 'traditional' (the way 'ye olde' English is always rendered in illegible Germanic type, I suppose.)
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