Citations:cacography

Noun: poor or bad writing

 * 1892, Henry Melvil Doak, The Wagonauts Abroad, Southwestern publishing house; Chapter VIII, pages 285–286:
 * Riley’s verses in the speech of the ignorant, the mountain dialect stories, and most of that sort of literature, including the African jargon tales, is mere pestilential cacography. Of all things in literature this is the least worthy. Thackeray’s “  Yellow Plush Papers  ” are an instance of a great writer degrading his talents to mere cacography. Both dialect and cacography touch, at their best, merely the outre, the occasional, the transient, and the accidental ; where genius seeks the genuine, the true, the lasting, the granite bedrock lines in humanity, which alone can live and be true for all time—to‐morrow as today, to‐day as yesterday.