"nastygram" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Blend of nasty + -gram",
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  "etymology_text": "Blend of nasty + -gram. Possibly a playful variation of candygram.",
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      "form": "nastygrams",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1987 January 24, Steve Kerch, “Realty Terminology: Bird dogs to fat cats”, in Chicago Tribune, page 7",
          "text": "Ordinary people might find a \"nasty gram\" in the mail, a notice from a lender who has not received payment from a borrower.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 May 21, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2023-12-07",
          "text": "\"Okay, before we over-react... Ennesby, are you one hundred percent sure that General Xinchub was responsible for that bomb?\" \"A hundred percent? No. But I am sure that he got my nasty-gram.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2009-02-10",
          "text": "Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient."
      ],
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          "written",
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          "communication",
          "communication"
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          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "criticize",
          "criticize"
        ],
        [
          "insult",
          "insult"
        ],
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          "intimidate",
          "intimidate"
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        "(informal) A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "candygram"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nasty gram"
        },
        {
          "word": "nasty-gram"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nastygram"
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  "etymology_text": "Blend of nasty + -gram. Possibly a playful variation of candygram.",
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      "form": "nastygrams",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "candygram"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 January 24, Steve Kerch, “Realty Terminology: Bird dogs to fat cats”, in Chicago Tribune, page 7",
          "text": "Ordinary people might find a \"nasty gram\" in the mail, a notice from a lender who has not received payment from a borrower.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 May 21, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2023-12-07",
          "text": "\"Okay, before we over-react... Ennesby, are you one hundred percent sure that General Xinchub was responsible for that bomb?\" \"A hundred percent? No. But I am sure that he got my nasty-gram.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2009-02-10",
          "text": "Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.",
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        }
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        "A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient."
      ],
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          "communication",
          "communication"
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          "unpleasant",
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        [
          "criticize",
          "criticize"
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        [
          "insult",
          "insult"
        ],
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        "(informal) A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nasty gram"
    },
    {
      "word": "nasty-gram"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nastygram"
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