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Unprofessional

adjective

Not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession. "Was censured for unprofessional conduct" , "Unprofessional repairs"

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"Unprofessional" Quotes from Famous Books

... him full in the face, "I see you're unrepresented. This is a case in which I take a very deep interest. My conduct's unprofessional, I know—point-blank against all our recognised etiquette—but perhaps you'll excuse it. Will you allow me to undertake your defence in ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... man's grip on my shoulder tightened just for a moment, and when he spoke it was in an entirely unprofessional voice. ...

— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay

... upon music; it is almost the only thing which Italians in general can be said to know—and even that knowledge comes to them, like Dogberry's reading and writing, by nature—for of music, as an art, the unprofessional amateurs know but little. As vain and arrogant of the last wreck of their national genius as the Romans of old were of the empire of all arts and arms, they look upon the harmonies of other lands as barbarous; nor can they appreciate or understand appreciation of the mighty ...

— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... separated from his chief, with whom he worked untiringly, placing at his disposal his intimate knowledge of the nooks and crannies of professional and unprofessional diplomacy. He is one of the latest arrivals and most pushing workers in the sphere of the Old World statecraft, affects Yankee methods, and speaks English. For several years political editor of the Temps, he obtained access to the state archives, ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... pair of shy, passionate eyes. The author is different enough from any of the numerous American artists. They may be producers, but he's a product as well—a product of influences of a sort of which we have as yet no general command. One of them is his charmed lapse of life in that unprofessional-looking little studio, with his enchanted wood on one side and the plunging wall ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

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