as in letter
a message on paper from one person or group to another
the two old friends like to fire off missives filled with good-natured teasing and mock insults
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Recent Examples of missive
Eric Braeden, for instance, has been particularly fired up during the election, posting missives about Trump and his rallies.
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Lynette Rice, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
American Idiot the album is still a potent political missive, a reminder of all the ways that art can speak truth to power — and somewhere in the morass of this new revival, there’s a nugget of that.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The Venetians eventually called such missives lettere mercantile, or mercantile letters.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2024
These missives are of two kinds: dreams and videos.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Lynette Rice, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
American Idiot the album is still a potent political missive, a reminder of all the ways that art can speak truth to power — and somewhere in the morass of this new revival, there’s a nugget of that.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The Venetians eventually called such missives lettere mercantile, or mercantile letters.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2024
These missives are of two kinds: dreams and videos.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for missive
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“Missive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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