Meanings of most businesslike in English

From this point on everything passed off in a most businesslike manner.

I was very much struck with her writing-table, which looked most businesslike.

He had assumed his most businesslike expression, but Bob rushed up to him.

For Grunty Pig was beneath the tree again, digging away in a most businesslike fashion.

He had placed the matter on the most businesslike footing that had occurred to him.

Tommy said this in a most businesslike tone, but could not help smacking his lips.

She put on her most businesslike and efficient tone of voice and said, Detective Constable Day.

You see, Joe and Mamie are very real, father, and most businesslike; an ambitious, upstanding pair.

She spoke in her most businesslike tone.

Roderick was grinning back as he snapped the fetter in a most businesslike way about his wrist.

She had been most businesslike about them.

He's a most businesslike madman.

She could not believe his compliments were entirely genuine, therefore she took refuge behind her coolest, her most businesslike demeanor.

With great deliberation, but most businesslike directness, Darwin disengaged Funny Face's unresisting fingers from the prune, seized it, and retired.

A piece of larger size than the rest he took and carried in the most businesslike manner back to his home.

It was the most businesslike, unromantic dining room in the world, filled with affluent middle-aged wheelers and dealers, stockbrokers and bankers.