as in ungrammatical
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Adjective
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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
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The vast majority of the population was illiterate.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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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