Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. informal A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient.
Etymologies
- Blend of nasty and -gram. Possibly a playful variation of candygram. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Elliott Back's personal site about Cornell University has attracted a nastygram from the university, which argues that it's possible that someone (presumably someone very foolish) might mistake his site (whose URL is cornell. elliottback.com) with Cornell University's site.”
“Next a court in Jersey yesterday ruled against Edward Felton, who was intimidated out of publishing an academic paper deconstructing the security model of the Secure Digital Music Initiative by a nastygram from the RIAA.”
“This solution was certainly interesting and unique, but of course there are many cases where the nastygram is the best approach.”
“Anderson told the Chronicle of Higher Education that she may have received an e-mail, which he called a "nastygram," last Friday confirming her tenure was rejected.”
“This means, among other things, that people from certain countries visiting Sourceforge will not gain immediate access to the open source projects contained therein, but rather, will receive a "nastygram" in the form of a 403 forbidden message.”
“Calling the letter he received a "nastygram," Mr. Sheikh said he decided to pay for the license because it wasn't worth the effort to fight it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Colorado Ski Towns Scour Slopes for Cold Cash
“DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - Monster.com sent a legal nastygram to USAction demanding the liberal advocacy group cease and desist its campaign to get the job listing site to quit posting ads that discriminate against unemployed people.”
The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Court Gives 2009 Republicans A Big Win
“Speaking of which, I wanted to compliment you on the great job you did drafting that nastygram for the MLS Commissioner.”
What will happens when Beavers, Timbers play on same night? (Jack Bog's Blog)
“In 2006, they sent a cease-and-desist nastygram to the Irish non-profit organization IT@Cork for using the word in the name of their conference and sparked a kerfuffle over the ownership of "Web 2.0”
“I wrote a nastygram to Qwest's CEO complaining about crappy service, and when I looked up his mailing address on the web I learned that Qwest's former CEO is in a FEDERAL PRISON for SEC violations.”
National Broadband Plan Is Cash for Clunking Carriers « PubliCola
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nastygram’.
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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Teh Interwebs
So, I herd u liek Mudkips?
lolcat, caturday, internets, interweb, kthxbai, egosurfing, baleeted, pebkac, fubar, wiki, zomg, lols and 19 more...
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Words That Wordie Has Taught Me
New words that I've learned on Wordie.
contronym, callipygian, apostate, nyctophobia, transliteration, copyleft, mudita, inchoate, manualism, ithyphallic, diacritics, nastygram and 26 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nastygram.

oroboros "When a rightsholder sends a nastygram to Amazon, you don't get a say in whether to treat the claim as valid or bogus."
--"Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books", boingboing, July 20, 2009 (Cory Doctorow) Jul 20, 2009
conlonl an email with a negative, critical or threatening tone Jul 11, 2009
sonofgroucho Not a term I had heard before, but seems quite well established. Nov 10, 2007