syntactical

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2020

By reading the material aloud, Horgan and her writing partners are trying to make the lines sound as much like spoken English as possible; “Catastrophe” scripts are littered with syntactical detritus like “you know.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

Traditional classics courses are not making the most of those ancient authors on their curriculum who enhance civic as opposed to syntactical competence.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015

In addition to the syntactical and grammatical faux pas, the dull tone of the prose was also dissonant with my signature style, or so I would like to think.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2014

In etymological parsing, it may be sufficient to name the conjunction as such, and repeat the definition above; but, in syntactical parsing, the learner should always specify the terms connected.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold