a poison-pen letter



a poison-pen letter

a letter that has no signature and says unpleasant things about the person it is sent to After he was convicted, his family received a number of poison-pen letters.
See also: letter

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Gocha-Georgian
Marcelomahr-THE-lo (Spanish), mahr-SE-lo (Latin American Spanish)Spanish, Portuguese
Petko-Bulgarian, Macedonian
Pippin (2)PIP-in (English)Literature
Zaccheus-Biblical Latin
Sheine-Yiddish