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

• “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

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

  Rural Mexico revisited

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

  The Financier

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Often as the elder partner looked upon the sensible, kindly, handsome-featured face, he reminded himself how very dear to his father in his old age had been this unbusiness-like, pleasure-loving, steeplechase-riding younger son, who had been but a boy at school when the old man had died.”

  Mrs. Day's Daughters

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