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Professor Parkinson's book is a delightfully unprofessorial diagnosis of that widespread 20th century malady?galloping orgmanship.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years.

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But as Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions.

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"I'm sorry," said Professor Henning, and rose; but at the door he turned and said something highly unprofessorial.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna