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

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

As ungrammatical as the chorus is, it’s memorable and enduring.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2018

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