WRITTEN OFF Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

written off

verb

past participle of write off

as in dismissed

to express scornfully one's low opinion of most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock

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as in reduced

to diminish the price or value of that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up

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Recent Examples of written off The president’s instinct to go for the jugular was on display in his first campaign, when he was written off early on as an entertainer but found success with brutal takedowns. —

Zac Anderson, USA Today, 12 June 2026 Because of Young's commitments in Shondaland, Beth was quietly written off the show in later seasons. —

Rachel Labonte, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026 But that doesn’t mean she’s entirely written off appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s biggest awards competition. —

Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2026 Capital is moving back into a sector many had long written off. —

Elena Bou, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 In 1984, McClain took a job as the director of Black music at A&M and was assigned to work on a project with Janet Jackson, who had essentially been written off by the label after a pair of underwhelming early ‘80s albums. —

Jem Aswad, Variety, 27 May 2026 At the time, she'd been all but written off by the label, but thanks to McClain, emerged as a superstar. —

Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026 For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city. —

Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026 Lam said that, just as California's Three Strikes law has changed, so has the idea that people should be locked up and written off. —

John Ramos, CBS News, 18 May 2026

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In a 55-page decision, a superior court judge has dismissed significant portions of a lawsuit filed by the former Chief Human Resources Officer of Boston Water and Sewer, including all claims against the Herald, alleging she was fired as part of a wide-ranging conspiracy.

— Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 14 June 2026
All of which spilled into public view at the City Council meeting, with commissioners claiming that, after numerous meetings, the mayor’s office dismissed their concerns and recommendations for this particular reappointment to the board.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026