DEMERIT

demerit

Noun

  1. A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage
  2. A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
  3. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

Verb

  1. To deserve.
  2. To depreciate or cry down.


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