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

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

By reading the material aloud, Horgan and her writing partners are trying to make the lines sound as much like spoken English as possible; “Catastrophe” scripts are littered with syntactical detritus like “you know.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

In this case the word is an improper compound, since it is like the word pater-familias in Latin, in a common state of syntactical construction. b.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)