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Adjective
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The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.—
Calvin Tomkins,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025 -
But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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This cooking competition show takes a group of kitchen illiterate recruits and puts them through a culinary bootcamp designed to instill them with basic food prep skills.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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The real Nixon is often lumped in with our current President, but this is historically illiterate.—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Dec. 2025
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The case highlighted broader substandard working and housing conditions for pickers, including excessive working hours, low pay, a lack of safety equipment and protocols, such as adequate hydration and breaks.—
Holly Ellyatt,Charlotte Reed,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2025
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City officials and police have pointed the finger of blame at construction companies for allegedly using substandard mesh netting to wrap scaffolding on the buildings and multiple arrests have been made.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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