ungrammatical

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Nor does it explain how his social media presence, which was always ungrammatical and silly, has become even more unhinged and incoherent.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2023

The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2018

First, seemingly thrown by syntactical complexity, it suggests that I should replace “there in a” with “there is a,” a change that would be ungrammatical, but that still leaves me questioning my own stylistic choices.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2018

Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2017

Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker