as in ungrammatical
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Adjective
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And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.—
Brian X. Chen,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023 -
That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite.—
Tom Simonite,
Wired,
18 Oct. 2020
Adjective
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Vuong has told a strikingly similar anecdote about his late mother, like Rose an illiterate mixed-race Vietnamese immigrant who worked in a nail salon.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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An illiterate student just graduated from Hartford High.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The physician who provides substandard care out of political conviction rather than medical evidence?—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Objective measures of diet quality in the US conducted by scientists show that the American diet is substandard.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
7 May 2025
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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