nastygram

plural nastygrams · alternative nasty gram · alternative nasty-gram

1. informalA written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient.

   Ordinary people might find a "nasty gram" in the mail, a notice from a lender who has not received payment from a borrower.

   1987 January 24, Steve Kerch, “Realty Terminology: Bird dogs to fat cats”, in Chicago Tribune, page 7

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   "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."

   2003 May 21, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023

   Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.

   2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 28 May 2022, retrieved 10 Feb 2009