The waiters are professionals who go about their work with a very businesslike air.

Tempos were generally on the quick side, which sometimes lent a mundane, businesslike air to the proceedings.

The old man was also impressed by the bulky sergeant's businesslike air.

These accompany dresses or skirts and have a neat businesslike air.

Meanwhile the door had opened again, and there shuffled in with a businesslike air the white-aproned woman who cleaned the church.

She has a no-nonsense, businesslike air about her, Giraud noted.

Lewis dropped his cordiality and assumed his usual businesslike air.

Hasan was amazed at the businesslike air of the man who yesterday had waxed so sentimental.

She nibbed her face with a businesslike air and tucked her handkerchief away.

After the businesslike air of Bloomfield, its near neighbor Wellington seems very much a 19th-century resort.