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Example sentences for: writ

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writ writer 1. a prison attorney; a barrackroom lawyer.
Some of the following expressions, like writ room, must have had their beginnings in states of tranquillity.
It's the Clinton sex scandals writ small, which served only to prove that the entire political establishment has grown so far removed from the mood of the people, it's little wonder that I'm hoping Warren Beatty will run, if only to save my sanity--although I fear as a presidential contender he will break my heart just as Mario Cuomo did all those years ago--and others are looking to Jesse Ventura, if not for president then at least as the man to stop Pat Buchanan.
In his crime bill, passed in 1994, he went further than any Republican president would have dared to restrict habeas corpus, the writ by which state prisoners, including those on death row, can get their cases reviewed by federal courts.
writ room the law library used by prisoners.