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unproˈfessional, a. and n. (un-1 7, 12.)
1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 299 The solution unfortunately having become a very common medicine with unprofessional people. 1847De Quincey Span. Mil. Nun Wks. 1853 III. 59 No authority could overrule the concurrent testimony of all symptoms, and of all unprofessional opinions. 1895Westm. Gaz. 31 July 8/1 As a wicket-keeper he has had no unprofessional superior. 1899Ibid. 17 June 3/2 He had not intended any disrespect to the Court, or to do anything unprofessional. n.1863Reade Hard Cash II. 244 The unexpected turn the evidence had taken..cleared Mr. Hardie with the unprofessionals. Hence unproˈfessionalism.
1934Webster, Unprofessionalism. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion Elizabethan England 382 The clue to English ill-success was, as usual, amateurishness, unprofessionalism, in the beginning. 1977Time 28 Feb. 22/1 The Carter Administration was still marred in some areas by confusion and unprofessionalism; the staff work was sometimes shoddy and key memos poorly prepared. |