professionally

From professional + -ly.

professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)

1. As a professional; for one's paid career.

   Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.

2. In a professional manner.

   You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.

   • 2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.

   • 2025 October 22, Jim O'Callaghan, quotee, “Second night of unrest in Dublin as protesters target asylum hotel”, in The Guardian‎^[2], sourced from P. A. Media, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 December 2025:

     He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.

• unprofessionally