1. demerit - Noun
2. demerit - Verb
That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
The state of one who deserves ill.
To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
To depreciate or cry down.
To deserve praise or blame.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit. Avigdor Lieberman
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. Theodore Roosevelt
Friday, don't despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used. Robert A. Heinlein
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. Laurie Halse Anderson
Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety (whatever demerit there may be in that!) the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew. Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
A single merit cannot make a hundred demerits fade; a hundred merits cannot hide a single demerit. Chinese Proverb