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See definition of unneighborly on Dictionary.com
  • as inchurlish
  • as inunfriendly
  • as inunsociable

synonyms for unneighborly

  • grumpy
  • ornery
  • rude
  • sullen
  • uncivilized
  • base
  • blunt
  • brusque
  • cantankerous
  • cloddish
  • clodhopping
  • crabbed
  • crude
  • crusty
  • curt
  • cussed
  • discourteous
  • dour
  • grouchy
  • gruff
  • harsh
  • ill-tempered
  • impolite
  • loutish
  • lowbred
  • mean
  • miserly
  • morose
  • oafish
  • rustic
  • snippy
  • surly
  • touchy
  • ugly
  • uncivil
  • uncultured
  • unmannerly
  • unpolished
  • unsociable
  • vulgar

antonyms for unneighborly

MOST RELEVANT
  • happy
  • nice
  • polished
  • refined
  • sophisticated
  • gentle
  • pleasant
  • polite
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How to use unneighborly in a sentence

All plebeian Chelsea was abroad, and a bourgeois population is nowhere unneighborly.
THE PROMISED LANDMARY ANTIN
The Dowager was at a loss to account for this gratuitous courtesy on the part of her hitherto unneighborly neighbor.
JUST PATTYJEAN WEBSTER
Ollie did not want to appear unneighborly nor unkind, but as the night wore heavily on she at last requested them to leave her.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
They are certainly very unneighborly, and have no idea of living in harmony.
WASPSGEORGE W. PECKHAM
"I know you're all mighty unneighborly," I said, making me a cigarette in the way that cowboys do.
THE RANGE DWELLERSB. M. BOWER
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, VOL. II: IN THE MIDST OF LIFE: TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANSAMBROSE BIERCE
Comfort could not be called unneighborly, nor did he ever acquire the credit of liberality.
THE KNICKERBOCKER, VOL. 10, NO. 1, JULY 1837VARIOUS
He heard him urging him not to be what Doolittle called unneighborly.
THE STURDY OAKSAMUEL MERWIN, ET AL.
If it were merely a question of right, it would be unneighborly to insist.
HELENA'S PATHANTHONY HOPE
That is a very unneighborly thing for you to do, Mrs. Tarpey.
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