The phrase 'write off people' is not correct and cannot be used in written English.
To write someone off means to decide that a person is not worth one's effort or time, so it is not an appropriate phrase to use in written English. For example, rather than saying, "I write off people who don't agree with my beliefs," you could say, "I don't think positively about people who don't agree with my beliefs."
Don't write off people who seem like dummies.
I felt that this kind of politics, where you write off people, was utterly wrong.
And if the history of Silicon Valley teaches anything, it is never to write off people with crazy ideas.
It's really easy to write off people with any kind of religious belief, especially if they're fervent.
A company that made more than1m unsolicited calls in a month offering to write off people's debts has been fined £120,000 by a government watchdog.
* * * A debt management company that made more than one million nuisance calls in a month offering to write off people's debts has been fined a record £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office.
What's notable about the app, besides the fact that it's arriving at a time when many have written off "people finders" as passé, is that the company's founder and CEO is Michael Chasen, the former co-founder and CEO of Blackboard, who stepped down from his position at the company in late 2012, following its $1.64 billion exit to Providence Equity Partners in mid-2011.
His latest films NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013) and Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014) (both of which will be screened this week at Toronto's Bloor Hot Docs Cinema), deal with yet another section of humanity that many have written off: people with mental health issues who are found to be not legally responsible for their actions after committing violent crimes.
In the case of Morgellons disease, mainstream medicine has written off people with unexplained dermopathy as delusional.
"Wayne is a good footballer – and good footballers are dangerous people to write off.
"A lot of the older generation write off young people.
