- a variation of syntactic.
syntactical
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
We’re talking the simple linguistic point, whereby you can take a sentence and by the addition of a “no” or a “not” at the appropriate syntactical juncture, transform its meaning into its opposite.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2018
He now concluded that his seemingly senseless, extremely protracted efforts to align his sentences on the right side of Microsoft Word were in fact generating unusual syntactical constructions and strange word choices.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2016
In addition to the syntactical and grammatical faux pas, the dull tone of the prose was also dissonant with my signature style, or so I would like to think.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014
To the ordinary syntactical use of any of these, no rules of concord, government, or position, can at all apply.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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