ungrammatical

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Yet, somehow, he was producing paragraphs of eighth-grade level prose instead of the barely-intelligible and ungrammatical screeds — fourth-grade level prose, according to a 2024 New York Times analysis — he usually whips out.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2025

And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

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

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 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

For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up!

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro