unprofessional

Example Sentences

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“People are expecting a really small, dinky, unprofessional show, and they get comedy gold,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Foreign policy analysts would normally consider distraction to be a lazy and unprofessional explanation for major actions like wars, if not a symptom of paranoid conspiracy thinking.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

“Allow your boss to be the unprofessional one,” she says.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

Jaye, a TikTokker who recently started working for Girl Guiding, says she sometimes tries to suppress or "mask" her tics for fear of coming across as unprofessional.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Ifemelu thought the home visit unprofessional and odd, but this was a small magazine, and this was Nigeria, where boundaries were blurred, where work blended into life, and bosses were called Mummy.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie