demerit

Speech parts

1. demerit - Noun

2. demerit - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

fault after reduce break failure error evil vice punishment sin failing badly anger deficiency defect
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Antonyms

merit paragon citation value advantage presence
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Hypernyms

mark worth brand stain stigma

Anagrams

dimeter merited mitered detemir Diemert

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

Demeraran demerge demerger demerit good demerit point demeritorious