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

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

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

That was an extraordinary way to say: You are so unprofessional and inexperienced that I’m not even going to discipline you because you never had any business in this position in the first place.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026

Olanna was used to unprofessional and inept operators, but this was the rudest she had experienced.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie