a. (UN-1 7 c.)
1824. Scott, Rodgauntlet, ch. ii. His own very unbusiness-like mistake of shuffling the Provost’s letter … among some papers belonging to Peter Peebles’s affairs.
1862. Helps, Organiz. Daily Life, 21. Great efforts will be made in a scattered, uncomprehensive, and unbusiness-like way.
a. 1910. Flor. Nightingale, in Sir E. T. Cook, Life, 1820–61, vi. 495. I will give 21s for Mrs. S’s sake, provided they don’t send me any more of their stupid books, and don’t let this unbusiness-like woman write any more of these unbusiness-like letters.
