: a written communication : letter
wrote a lengthy missive to her father
Examples of missive in a Sentence
She received yet another lengthy missive from her father.
the two old friends like to fire off missives filled with good-natured teasing and mock insults
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For those with some tenuous attachment to reality, the ICC’s most recent missives read like dispatches from an alternate universe.
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 May 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 May 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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“Missive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/missive. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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