unneighborly

Example Sentences

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Whether you reciprocate or not, repaying their hospitality with hasty judgment is unneighborly.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

The home of the State Department is, like so many federal properties in Washington, a hostile, forbidding, unpleasant and unneighborly manifestation of the security regime run amok.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2015

It's part of the privately owned portion of Bergamot Station, and landlord Wayne Blank says he is tripling its rent in response to what he considers its disruptive and unneighborly vision for Bergamot Station.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2014

According to some recent survey results, Americans have become rather unneighborly.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2012

On investigating, I found that the tree had been nearly stripped of its buds,—a very unneighborly act on the part of the sparrows, considering, too, all the cracked corn I had scattered for them.

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John