unbusiness-like

What an unbusiness-like fellow you are! — you ask for a stove, — I send it, — and you neither tell me whether you like it, nor if it is arrived!

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

It allows CFE to continue to be arrogant, inefficient and unbusiness-like.

Rural Mexico revisited 2005

That I failed in business because I was unbusiness-like and credulous — in not being prepared for the interested designs of my partner.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

That I failed in business because I was unbusiness-like and credulous — in not being prepared for the interested designs of my partner.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

But even this vicious and unbusiness-like system appears not to have been adhered to in the case of Mr. Cowperwood.

The Financier 2004

His days resembled a blurred nightmare, in which he sped from one dingy office to the next, or sat through interviews with lawyers and bankers — humiliating interviews, in the course of which his unbusiness-like conduct, his want of NOUS in money matters was mercilessly dragged to light.

Ultima Thule 2003

Neither was yet due ... and when Sir Jake heard what she had done, he rather called her over the coals for so unbusiness-like a proceeding.

Ultima Thule 2003

But she had pointed out that a move as unbusiness-like as that would invite investigation and she didn't see why she should suffer financially for his unpredictable conscience.

The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

They even laughed occasionally, for the girls, in their ignorance, asked queer questions; Tom made ludicrously unbusiness-like propositions; and Maud gave them one hearty peal, that did

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Such was the unbusiness-like disposition of the poor creature, she would at once have surrendered it, had the prescription been hers to give.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann