ill-formed

ADJECTIVE
  1. not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage
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How To Use ill-formed In A Sentence

  • Canutus, William, Matilda, and others, some British coins of gold have been dispersedly found, and no small number of silver pieces near Norwich, with a rude head upon the obverse, and an ill-formed horse on the reverse, with inscriptions Ic. Duro. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • My opening post was pretty ill-formed and inarticulate, but I'm glad that people have an idea about what I'm getting at.
  • syntactically ill-formed
  • As a result, the man is not assigned case in (1b), breaking the Case Filter and resulting in an ill-formed sentence. 2009 October « Motivated Grammar
  • In most cases, these devices do not have the computing power of a desktop computer and aren't designed to accommodate ill-formed HTML, as standard desktop browsers tend to do.
  • A disjointed story with ill-formed characters and pointless tangents. “Ponyo” is a first-rate kids’ flick from animé master » Scene-Stealers
  • Plot, setting, characters major and minor—all come to life in his mouth because a short, ill-formed man had conceived, all of five minutes ago, the stunning notion of making a movie about mud wrestlers, carny hands, tragic but virtuous nightclub singers, doomed gangsters, sleazy Europeans. Movie Conference, 1963
  • It's an ill-formed, thick and sticky horror - like Roast Lamb gone cold and congealed with fat.
  • No more will you have to endure the ill-formed attacks of the purchasing public.
  • A lumbering, ill-formed young man, very dark, and uncouth in his speech. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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