downright neighborly

Although Richmond, about a two-hour drive south of Washington, is far from a small town, it’s downright neighborly, and the community welcome mat is out.

In manner, Hofer is wholly unlike the bombastic Trump, speaking in an aw-shucks style that comes off as downright neighborly.

In a statement released in the afternoon, they sounded downright neighborly.

But for the 1,800 folks of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, 25 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, Pacific Telephone had always been downright neighborly.

We feel downright neighborly toward such specters as the futile “last ghost” Nelson Lloyd evokes for us, as we appreciate the satire of Rose O'Neill's sophisticated wraith.