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Letter missive
Vivastreet
Oration
Remittance
Divert
Obviate
Modicum
Admissible
Corpulent
Abode
Permit
Pmu
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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
mis·sive
[
mis
-iv
]
/
ˈmɪs
ɪv
/
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Part of Speech:
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missive
Main Entry:
missive
Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
The postman stops his bike to slide the
missive
through the letterbox and the dog lets out two yaps.
As intriguing as what the cardinal's
missive
said was what it did not say.
Another
missive
lays out the alphabet soup of overlapping authorities.
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The postman stops his bike to slide the
missive
through the letterbox and the dog lets out two yaps.
As intriguing as what the cardinal's
missive
said was what it did not say.
Another
missive
lays out the alphabet soup of overlapping authorities.
Some users were so flabbergasted by the auction company's
missive
that they suspected it was actually a hoax hatched by crackers.
The
missive
fails to offer pricing info for either the album as a whole or its individual songs.
After all, it is helpful to know to whom a
missive
is directed-and without a name, it could be for anyone.
Unfortunately for him, he doesn't learn the truth until after he sends the damning
missive
to where she lives.
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