professor
noun
a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor.
unprofessorial
-
a word derived from
professor.
Example Sentences
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No one more vividly personifies the new practitioner than Irving Louis Horowitz, 40, a shaggy, disarmingly unprofessorial professor who lectures without a tie, lambastes most of his colleagues, and delivers endless sotto voce manifestos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Parkinson's book is a delightfully unprofessorial diagnosis of that widespread 20th century malady?galloping orgmanship.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm sorry," said Professor Henning, and rose; but at the door he turned and said something highly unprofessorial.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
