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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Nor does it explain how his social media presence, which was always ungrammatical and silly, has become even more unhinged and incoherent.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
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
Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?
From Slate ● May 7, 2018
Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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