ungrammatical
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of ungrammatical
First recorded in 1645–55; un- 1 + grammatical
Example Sentences
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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
And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
I didn’t even pay much attention to my parents’ accented and ungrammatical speech.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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