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unprofessionalness

unprofessionalness noun: synonym of unprofessionalism.

Noun

unprofessionalness (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of unprofessionalism.
    • “[…] if I am questioned, I shall merely say that I designed it myself, with a little assistance from a professional architect, whose intentions were good, but who had never been called upon to live in a house of his own planning. Will that answer?” / "“Perfectly,” replied Mr. Brook; “it will amply...1883, Margaret Vandegrift [pseudonym; Margaret Thomson Janvier], chapter XXIX, in The Queen’s Body-Guard. A Story of American Life for Girls., Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T[roth] Coates & Co., →OCLC...
    • Lethaby was enchanted by the gaiety, by the casualness, by the unprofessionalness (in the qualifications, frock-coat sense) of the Rossetti, Morris, Webb, Burne-Jones set.1968, P[eter] Ferriday, “W[illiam] R[ichard] Lethaby”, in John Summerson, editor, Concerning Architecture: Essays on Architectural Writers and Writing Presented to Nikolaus Pevsner, Baltimore, Md....

Examples of unprofessionalness in a sentence

  • Brook; “it will amply account for the—well, we will say the unprofessionalness of the plan.”1883, Margaret Vandegrift [pseudonym; Margaret Thomson Janvier], chapter XXIX, in The Queen’s Body-Guard. A Story of American Life for...
  • Ignoring so fundamental a principle only impedes mastery and attests to slovenly unprofessionalness.1970, Leo M. Schell, “Preventing and Correcting Word Identification Problems”, in William K[irtley] Durr, editor, Reading Difficulties...

Synonyms of unprofessionalness

Origin of unprofessionalness

From unprofessional + -ness.

Questions about unprofessionalness

What does unprofessionalness mean?
Unprofessionalness means synonym of unprofessionalism.
How do you use unprofessionalness in a sentence?
Brook; “it will amply account for the—well, we will say the unprofessionalness of the plan.”
What part of speech is unprofessionalness?
Unprofessionalness is a noun.

Words near unprofessionalness in the dictionary

  1. unprofessionalize
  2. unprofessionalized
  3. unprofessionalizes
  4. unprofessionalizing
  5. unprofessionally
  6. unprofessionalness
  7. unprofessionals
  8. unprofessorial
  9. unprofessorially
  10. unproffered
  11. unproficiency

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