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neighbourly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neighbourly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
▪ Even when industrialisation took most men out of the home, women ensured that the old neighbourly traditions lived on.
▪ He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
▪ How religiously, if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference, the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions!
▪ Now and then neighbourly visits received and paid.
▪ On occasion, old people are difficult to help and neighbourly relations become fraught.
▪ Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
▪ Thus, shopping is a regular feature of neighbourly support but intimate bodily tasks are rarely performed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neighbourly

neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.]

Wiktionary
neighbourly

a. (context British Canada English) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.

WordNet
neighbourly

adj. exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: neighborly]

Usage examples of "neighbourly".

Luka often quarrelled with him in a neighbourly way, and treated him with a haughtiness which, thanks to his good nature, Kobylin did not notice in the least.

Plumstead to live at Littlebath, and it had also happened--most unfortunately--that the embryo Mrs Tickler, in the warmth of her neighbourly regard, had written a friendly line to her friend Griselda Grantly, congratulating her with all the female sincerity on her splendid nuptials with the Lord Dumbello.

I wont to do this neighbourly loike, and let them think thee's gotten awa' o' theeself, but if he cooms oot o' thot parlour awhiles theer't clearing off, he mun' have mercy on his oun boans, for I wean't.

The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart.

He said he was sure everybody would appreciate the spirit of neighbourly charity with which I was acting, and even went so far as to say that the tenor of my bell chimed so sweetly with the bass of the church bell that he was always delighted to hear it.

Three generations were mind-sick with tensions and fears and doubts-heart-sick with the impossible wish to roll back the years to times of peaceful, neighbourly, unfrenzied human living.

Anyways, I think it would be neighbourly to wait for Meneer Scayse and the others.