ungrammatical
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Yet, somehow, he was producing paragraphs of eighth-grade level prose instead of the barely-intelligible and ungrammatical screeds — fourth-grade level prose, according to a 2024 New York Times analysis — he usually whips out.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2025
The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2018
Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2017
“A letter of condolence may be abrupt, badly constructed, ungrammatical — never mind,” advised the 1960 edition of Emily Post.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up!
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
