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How to use businesslike in a sentence

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She had honey blonde hair and a short businesslike suit that showed off her nice looking legs.
The matte blue finish on the barrel and receiver and the textured finish on the gray stock give an understated, businesslike appearance.
She seemed very efficient, and wore short but businesslike skirts and collared blue shirts.
A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike.
I try to approach all submissions in a detached way to be businesslike and non-emotional, in so far as that is possible.
The charities are brutally businesslike in coaxing dollars from the wallets of the super-rich.
I'm enormously proud of what was achieved there, especially the much more businesslike approach to managing the park.
And that means a businesslike approach to determine a return on investment in ministry.
Although the navy blue suit no longer rules the business fashion world, businesslike clothing is making a comeback.
I thought they'd be doing little dance routines with slap-bass accompaniment, but they are quite Dutch, calm and businesslike.
The town coroner, Horace is a nervous, businesslike man who is haunted by the people who died in his medical care during the war.
His determination to improve the quality of colonial workmanship and to impose a businesslike system of payments incurred many enemies.
The answering tone was brisk and businesslike, as if this happened ordinarily and every day.
He spoke, in a very businesslike tone, the sudden flare of anger gone from his voice and attitude.
Even now he could see her laughing face, which had also carried a very serious, businesslike edge to it.
I found its low key, understated, businesslike appearance to become more appealing as I got used to it.
In contrast to the businesslike tone of the letters received by businessmen, the email is more personal in its appeal to the readers.
Coffee was characterized as businesslike rather than frivolous, as reasonable rather than impulsive.
We also would be better served if we went back to a more businesslike approach to our elected officials' private lives once we've hired them.
The experience is relaxing but businesslike rather than luxurious, and would suit anyone on a busy schedule.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That the ensemble was businesslike and solid even my untrained eye could see.
Sidney had been insistent, and Harriet had topped the argument in her businesslike way.
They were businesslike, relentless, cold, they belonged to the world of the harbor!
Miss Georgie rose, the crisp, businesslike operator, and went to the table.
Nor was there anything in the least businesslike, official, or stenographic about her manner.
If Miss Bordereau suspected me of ulterior aims she would suspect me less if I should be businesslike, and yet I consented not to be so.
Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three per cents.
Here and there they would stop to inspect a bunch of cattle, and there would be a parley, brief and businesslike.
His speech was as unemotional and businesslike as when addressing her.
Though John insisted on professionalism and was always businesslike, his pose as an enfant terrible was maybe not a pose.
Then he went to work to accomplish this purpose in a businesslike way.
It is hard to temporize when confronted with a businesslike silence.
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated.
And then fell to pulling off, not only his jacket and waistcoat, but his shirt too, in a manner at once light-hearted, businesslike, and bloodthirsty.
After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, businesslike gentleman who came here today.
And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity.
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