ungrammatical
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Origin of ungrammatical
First recorded in 1645–55; un- 1 + grammatical
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Smothers died on Dec. 26, and that same day, a new book with a clunky and ungrammatical title became available on Amazon: “Tom Smothers: Revealing 4 Untold Truth About Half of Smothers Brother.”
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024
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
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
Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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