neighborlily

English

Etymology

From neighborly + -ly.

Adverb

neighborlily (comparative more neighborlily, superlative most neighborlily)

  1. In a neighborly manner.
    • 1906, A Key to Puzzledom; or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art, page 104:
      Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity;
    • 1922 July, Ida M. Evans, “His Wife’s Money”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXIII, number 1, page 72:
      The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily.
    • 1931 April, Margaret C. Moloney, “Leave It to Mike”, in The Catholic World, volume CXXXIII, number 793, page 62:
      The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back.
    • 1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, published 1990, page 42:
      Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other.
    • 1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 279:
      David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever.
    • 2008, Adam Nicolson, Earls of Paradise, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 44:
      []; and it was an act of charity and neighbourliness, ‘in living, walking and neighbourlily accompanying one another, with reconciling of differences at that time, if they be any’.
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