ungrammatical

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Smothers died on Dec. 26, and that same day, a new book with a clunky and ungrammatical title became available on Amazon: “Tom Smothers: Revealing 4 Untold Truth About Half of Smothers Brother.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024

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

Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: “true fact.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2018

Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?

From Slate • May 7, 2018

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