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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
Adjective
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At the time, forty percent of the country (including my mother, my sisters and me) was illiterate, and music was our speech, our religion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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The sort of person known to spend bus rides teaching illiterate teammates how to read, a process likely guided by a primer text booklet, Kendrick said.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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Despite to this day being a thriving port city and with so many people so close to the sea, Naples has plenty of substandard fish restaurants.—
Jamie Timson,
TheWeek,
27 May 2026
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The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of substandard conditions.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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