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What is writ large?
1/The use of the phrase 'writ large' to pepper meetings and affect intelligence even though the user of the phrase doesn't actually know what it means and therefore doesn't use it correctly.
2/Can also be used (writ large) to describe any type of word or phrase that someone uses specifically to appear more intelligent when the use of the word or phrase is in fact used incorrectly.
Despite her law school education, which would imply she should know what the word actually means, Kim is always writ larging it up in our prison reform policy meetings.
Once again Talib Kweli catches Kanye, the "proud non-reader of books", writ larging it up as he describes himself as a genius.
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Writ large - what is it?
in a very significant or far-reaching manner; of great magnitude and effectiveness
"Never mind the Stratford Festival, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, or the Montreal Symphony!
Hockey Night in Canada was Canadian culture writ large."
- excerpt from the Pierre Berton book "1967"