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

Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: “true fact.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 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

At the time, the ungrammatical and somehow provocative use of “like” instead of “as” created a minor sensation.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell