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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

... Wonderful! The students call him 'The Great Mystery of London;' and I begin to think the students are right. Do you want to see him? When he has not got his green shade on, he's rather a startling sight, I can tell you, for unprofessional eyes." ...

— Basil • Wilkie Collins

... twelve authors, or gentlemen suspected of authorship, fourteen or fifteen chemists, all scientific of course, one colonel, half-a-dozen captains, and, to crown all, a city knight and his lady, besides their general acquaintance, unscientific and unprofessional. For a beginning this was very well; and the company departed very hungry, but highly delighted with ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... been particularly careful not to," said Choate rather stiffly; but still, she saw, with an irritating proffer of compassion for her because she didn't know any better. "I am being very unprofessional indeed. And I still advise you, in plain language, not to draw that sort of inference about a ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... having offered to introduce Scott to some generals who could have furnished him with the most accurate, information respecting military events, the glory of which they had shared, Sir Walter replied, "I thank you, but I shall collect my information from unprofessional reports."—Bourrienne.]— ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... genius still works powerfully among us. We learn among other facts that he was a great innovator; but whether he or others took the decisive part in shaping the musical language of the modern world lies beyond the judgement of the unprofessional critic. Leaving on one side the history of musical composition, we shall confine ourselves to the position which music held in the social life ...

— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

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