hate mail
noun
: extremely angry letters, email, etc.
They get a lot of hate mail from people who disagree with their policies.
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Joe Simon tells a story about how their offices started to get phone calls and hate mail from Nazis after this came out.
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Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
Blume’s outspokenness against book censorship and her long-time support for Planned Parenthood has resulted in hate mail.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 8 May 2025
Her employer, Inside Edition, was inundated with anti-trans hate mail, which Tur says led them to fire her.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
There’s also her nearly lifelong struggle with Lyme disease (which was undiagnosed for decades), the hate mail and random abuse her ideas and stances have earned, and, of course, being physically attacked by Courtney Love at Lollapalooza in 1995.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
Blume’s outspokenness against book censorship and her long-time support for Planned Parenthood has resulted in hate mail.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 8 May 2025
Her employer, Inside Edition, was inundated with anti-trans hate mail, which Tur says led them to fire her.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
There’s also her nearly lifelong struggle with Lyme disease (which was undiagnosed for decades), the hate mail and random abuse her ideas and stances have earned, and, of course, being physically attacked by Courtney Love at Lollapalooza in 1995.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Hate mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20mail. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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