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Write off

verb

Concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody.

Write something fluently, and without hesitation.

Cancel (a debt).

Reduce the estimated value of something. Synonyms: expense, write down.

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... compare, In its quick make and vent, with our Birmingham ware, And it doesn't at all matter in either of these lines, How sham is the article, so it but shines,— We keep authors ready, all perched, pen in hand, To write off, in any given style, at command. No matter what bard, be he living or dead, Ask a work from his pen, and 'tis done soon as said: There being on the establishment six Walter Scotts, One capital Wordsworth and Southeys in lots;— Three choice Mrs. Nortons, all singing like syrens, ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... untrue statement, would avoid using his ordinary handwriting, as already appearing in the letter in question (No. 3), which he had ascribed to Mrs. Tresham. He, therefore, disguises his writing, so far as having to write off-hand and under the observation of the Lieutenant of the Tower and an attendant Justice, with the consciousness that he is writing what is false, and while having to be careful not to reproduce his former disguised ...

— The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 • William Parker