unbusinesslike
Example Sentences
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In July, state auditor Rob Sand said Iowa’s system for reporting test results was rife with “illegal and unbusinesslike practices, inefficiencies, and apparently pointless risks.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
For Max, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, self-aggrandizement would be — unbusinesslike.
From Nature ● Jan. 20, 2015
The family has built the quack makers into a substantial business via some decidedly unbusinesslike practices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2012
If you are immune to that kind of thing, or you think it somehow weak, pretentious, artsy-fartsy or unbusinesslike, then there are enough functional objects in the market for you.
From Time ● Apr. 1, 2010
And this was a young man with a reputation for unpunctuality, and all-round unbusinesslike, dilatory habits.
From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
