unprofessional

Example Sentences

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"A lot of my books have medical stuff in them, and I don't want people saying, 'Is this based on me?' It feels unprofessional."

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Foreign policy analysts would normally consider distraction to be a lazy and unprofessional explanation for major actions like wars, if not a symptom of paranoid conspiracy thinking.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Lakers star Luka Doncic was fined $50,000 on Tuesday for directing an “inappropriate and unprofessional gesture toward a game official” during the Lakers’ win over the New York Knicks on Sunday, the NBA announced.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

“Allow your boss to be the unprofessional one,” she says.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

Ifemelu thought the home visit unprofessional and odd, but this was a small magazine, and this was Nigeria, where boundaries were blurred, where work blended into life, and bosses were called Mummy.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie