unbusinesslikeness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From unbusinesslike + -ness.