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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

... again. That is the difficulty with the unprofessional story-teller: he yaws back and forth and can't keep in the wind; he drops his characters overboard when he hasn't any further use for them and drowns them; he forgets the coffee-pot and the frying-pan and all the other small essentials, and, ...

— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... called at the Corn Exchange and offered her unprofessional services as a nurse, if further aid ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... after some time, Guy did come round to my idea, that no punishment we could have brought about would have been so ample and terrible; but Mr. Fitchett could not see it in that light at all. Not only was the termination of the affair dreadfully unprofessional, but the little triumph he had anticipated at the trial was spoiled. If human weakness ever could touch this great man, it was when he heard the judge pay a compliment to "the sagacity and zeal of that ...

— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence

... "How very unprofessional of me! I ought to have given you a card! For all you know I may be an impostor, indulging an unpardonable curiosity. ...

— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... try to show the Doctor how unprofessional my conduct would be in betraying my informant, even how contemptible. He was inexorable. This time I should not escape, nor my accomplice either. Out with it, and at once. With a show of regretful resignation I gave in. For once I would break my rule and "tell on" my informant. I thought ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

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