neighborlily
neighborlily adverb: in a neighborly manner.
Adverb
neighborlily (comparative more neighborlily, superlative most neighborlily)
- In a neighborly manner.
- Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity;1906, A Key to Puzzledom; or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art, page 104
- The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily.1922 July, Ida M. Evans, “His Wife’s Money”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXIII, number 1, page 72
Examples of neighborlily in a sentence
- The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back.1931 April, Margaret C. Moloney, “Leave It to Mike”, in The Catholic World, volume CXXXIII, number 793, page 62:
- Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other.1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, published 1990, page 42:
- David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever.1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 279:
Forms of neighborlily
| comparative | more neighborlily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most neighborlily |
| alternative UK | neighbourlily |
Origin of neighborlily
From neighborly + -ly.
Questions about neighborlily
- What does neighborlily mean?
- Neighborlily means in a neighborly manner.
- How do you use neighborlily in a sentence?
- The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back.
- What part of speech is neighborlily?
- Neighborlily is an adverb.
Words near neighborlily in the dictionary
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