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"cursive" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often longhand (8 letters).
Definitions
having successive letters joined together
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.
Used in a sentence
“Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.”
“cursive aspect”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Joined-up handwriting”7 letters
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