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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unprofessional
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession.
▪ It is an unprofessional, time-consuming and inefficient way to use video recordings.
▪ It was just very unprofessional with the way he let me go.
▪ Running out was totally unprofessional, but she had acted purely on instinct.
▪ Similarly, unprofessional disclosures within the school may not be protected by the First Amendment.
▪ The grounds for dismissal most frequently mentioned in state laws include insubordination, incompetency, immorality, and unprofessional conduct.
▪ They would be signs of an unprofessional subjectivism and impressionism; in recent radical discourse they indicate an undesirable mystification.
▪ We were so unprofessional and defended like amateurs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unprofessional

1806, from un- (1) "not" + professional (adj.).

Wiktionary
unprofessional

a. unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace

WordNet
unprofessional

adj. not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs" [ant: professional]

Usage examples of "unprofessional".

Nightenhelser is shocked by my unprofessional behavior and by the reaction of other Achaeans nearby.

But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.

I am sorry to see, also, that a degree of ignorance as to the natural course of diseases is often shown in these published cases, which, although it may not be detected by the unprofessional reader, conveys an unpleasant impression to those who are acquainted with the subject.

There were untrained, unprofessional prisms available, but it would have been dangerous for him to use one.

Oscar used acid like other lawyers use Valium -- a distinctly unprofessional and occasionally nasty habit that shocked even the most liberal of his colleagues and frequently panicked his clients.

It was a stupid whim, unprofessional, really, but I suddenly wanted to be a woman sitting on top of that bastard mountain, a human being, not a breathing machine.

There is no reason to describe ourselves, in our greatest notional effort, cls unprofessional dolts into the bargain.

Keeping them ignorant of a line of communication to their comatose child wouldn't only be unprofessional, but inhumanly cruel as well.

It was actually extremely unprofessional for that mechanic - Terry, I think he is - to push the substitute plug up into the sump, but Basil Rudd won't hear a word against him, and I suppose there was no harm done.

The action he was considering taking with regard to the Kelgian theater nurse was dangerous-he had only the vaguest of memories regarding DBLF physiology in the respiratory tract area-and probably unprofessional.

It would be very unprofessional, of course, but Novak wasn't going to go to the press with a scare story.

The vents in his throat flapped quickly as he sucked in air to prevent further unprofessional vocalizations of pain.