unneighbourlyunneighborlyadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈneɪbəli/, U.S. /ˌənˈneɪbərli/ Not characteristic of or befitting a neighbour or neighbours; not friendly or kind.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > neighbourly > not neighbourly
unneighbourly1566
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. ii. f. 11 Afterwardes thei conceiued a greate grief and offence, for that vnneighbourly enterteignement.
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. viii. 419 Haue you not often refused of a meere pinching & an vnneighbourly mind euen small matters..?
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 43 The proud, vnneighbourly..Proscriptions of the Dutchesse of Parma.
1657 T. Pierce Divine Philanthropie Ded. sig. A3 The late un-Neighbourly usage which I have publickly received.
1705 Sir J. Packington in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 125 Unneighbourly Proceedings against your own Tenants.
1763 J. Entick Gen. Hist. Late War II. 223 The unneighbourly manner, and oppressions..which Saxony has suffered from Prussia since the late peace.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. 397 The cause of this unneighbourly irruption into Cumberland.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 June 5/1 He could not conceive conduct worse and more unneighbourly.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxix. 493 Melanie said it would be unneighborly not to call and welcome Mr. Tarleton back from the war.
2000 W. H. C. Frend in Early Christian World II. vii. xxxi. 816 In western Asia Minor Jews and Christians had retained close if unneighbourly relations throughout this period.
Derivatives
unˈneighbourliness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > friendly relations between neighbours > want of neighbourliness
unneighbourliness1617
1617 G. Webbe Pract. Quietness (ed. 2) xv. 233 Diuision among neighbours is like to the sowing of salt causing barrennesse of all goodnesse, where there is that vnquiet vnneighborlines.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming I. iv. 64 The yeoman's pride struggled..to vindicate his unneighbourliness.
1941 S. D. Stirk Prussian Spirit xiii. 221 Romantic Imperialism..rarely caused unneighbourliness, wars of aggression, or the suppression of peoples.
2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. 30 An epidemic of unneighbourliness is sweeping the nation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† unneighbourlyadv.
Obsolete.
In a manner that is not neighbourly, friendly, or kindly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adverb] > in a neighbourly fashion > in unneighbourly fashion
unneighbourly1549
1549 Sir W. Paget in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. i. xix. 156 The French have..dealt on this side very unfriendly and unneighbourly towards us.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 39 Where these two Christian Armies might combine The bloud of malice, in a vaine of league, And not to spend it so vn-neighbourly . View more context for this quotation
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iii. i. 38 To tell me I was nine and thirty..'twas unneighbourly done of you, Mistress.
1785 F. Pilon Barataria ii. 27 The gardener..has most wickedly, and unneighbourly defrauded me of a tame cock pheasant.
1822 Misc. from Public Jrnls. 2 iii. 159 A certain goose..which the aforesaid defendant surreptitiously, tortuously, unneighbourly..had taken.
1871 F. B. Zincke Egypt of Pharaohs xlv. 342 Things are getting unneighbourly dear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
<
adj.1566
adv.1549