unprofessional

Example Sentences

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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

But Novak accused Halligan of wildly unprofessional conduct and openly breaking the law.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026

The author of the report, Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, declined to endorse the final version because of changes that altered his findings and made the report “highly unprofessional and inconsistent with our established standards.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

All of them had at one time or another gone over to the laboratory for advice or medicine or simply for unprofessional company.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck