unidiomatic

as in ungrammatical

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Adjective
  • 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
  • And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • The vast majority of the population was illiterate.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Assembly Bill 325 is economically illiterate nonsense that attempts to ban the use of pricing algorithms that help businesses determine prices.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The housing is for farmworkers aged 55 and up, many of whom live in substandard or cramped conditions due to their income.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Either way, these tech vendors had established a history of getting customers to adopt substandard technology in order to close a deal.
    Chris Degnan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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