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Meanings of unneighborly in inglés

Not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor.

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        Examples for "unneighbourly"
        1
        The doctor attacked him roughly, and charged his conduct as being unneighbourly.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 184...
        2
        And it seemed unneighbourly to go away without seeing your lordship, she said.
        The Odds / And Other Stories
        3
        I hope you do not mean to be stiff and unneighbourly, Miss Garston.
        Uncle Max
        4
        As it wears on it grows more or less unneighbourly.
        The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
        5
        It was an unneighbourly action, this of his, he thought.
        Come Rack! Come Rope!
        Usage of unneighborly in inglés
        1
        He heard him urging him not to be what Doolittle called unneighborly.
        The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
        2
        You can't be unneighborly and yet you can't supply the county with tools.
        Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm ...
        3
        His attitude was not contemptuous or unneighborly, but simply indifferent.
        His Sombre Rivals
        4
        I thought, What do you say to a native who has walked through your house, without sounding unneighborly?
        Ghosts
        5
        Now there is no more unneighborly or unchristian act for a farmer than to harbor a sheep-killing dog.
        The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
        6
        I do not wish to be unneighborly in remembrance of old times, nor do I wish to be obtrusive.
        An Original Belle
        7
        The Dowager was at a loss to account for this gratuitous courtesy on the part of her hitherto unneighborly neighbor.
        Just Patty
        8
        But the "neighbor" did not answer, being engaged in the unneighborly act of covering him with a cocked pistol.
        The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
        9
        He knew that Heathcote had gone away in great dudgeon, and he almost feared that he had been harsh and unneighborly.
        Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life
        10
        A bottle of gum tragacanth stood on one corner of the dressing-table, and with its contents Abby matted the unneighborly locks together.
        The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
        11
        "You would never go to do such an unneighborly act," he cried, "as--
        Paul Faber, Surgeon
        12
        "I know you're all mighty unneighborly," I said, making me a cigarette in the way that cowboys do.
        The Range Dwellers
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        Unneighborly through the time