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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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Helen's illiterate mother, who worked as a maid for an affluent white family, poured all her hopes into her single angel of a daughter.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.—
Cheryl Corley,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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Under city code for substandard structures, property owners are required to keep structures in good repair.—
Dave Lieber,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Feb. 2026
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According to the agency, counterfeiters make goods using substandard materials and parts that could break and hurt consumers.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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