Meaning of unbusinesslikeness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality or condition of being unbusinesslike.

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Examples

“Miss Hill is killing herself with conscientiousness and, as you so truly said, with unbusinesslikeness, and to no purpose for anybody.”

“They complain, it is true, not so much of actual wilful dishonesty—though of that, too, they affirm there is plenty—as of pettiness, constant shillyshallying, unbusinesslikeness almost passing belief.”

“You will no more avoid failure by systematic unbusinesslikeness, than you will secure success by strict attention to business.”

“The unbusinesslikeness of the profession of prostitution is considered very amusing by men. At a fire in the whorehouse, the Madam screams: "Where's that wench with the towels? If she's gone, my accounting system is shot to hell!"”

“When elected officials saw their loss reduction decisions from within the frame of "unbusinesslikeness," they quickly approved spending money on uniform business cards.”

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