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unbusinesslike

  • a word derived from businesslike.
    businesslike
    adjective
    conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.

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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

At the end of a year father found a man who was unbusinesslike enough to put him on his feet again.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes