tradesmanlike

The Legal is upon specified conditions, either purely tradesmanlike from hand to hand or somewhat more gentlemanly as regards time but still by agreement a _quid pro quo_.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

The first proposition might, or might not, yield us a profit, but it seemed to us too tradesmanlike.

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

Seeing the young lady enter, he smiled and bowed; not at all with tradesmanlike emphasis, but rather, it seemed to Bertha, like a man tired and absent-minded, performing a civility in the well-bred way.

Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

The people whom we see loitering along the beach and the promenade have, at best, a well-to-do, tradesmanlike air.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

The people whom we see loitering along the beach and the promenade have, at best, a well-to-do, tradesmanlike air.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

As neat a postscript as I ever heard -- the tradesmanlike coolness with which these pretty little animals occurred to him just at the finishing of his letter!

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

As neat a postscript as I ever heard -- the tradesmanlike coolness with which these pretty little animals occurred to him just at the finishing of his letter!

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Once more, father, nothing can be more tradesmanlike, and the mere thought of it makes me sick at heart.

The Pretentious Young Ladies 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647

"It's a tradesmanlike act: figuring out what things you can do to create more value from a site.

Professor Skyscraper 2009

"It's a tradesmanlike act: figuring out what things you can do to create more value from a site.

Professor Skyscraper 2009