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demerit

/dih-mer-it/US // dɪˈmɛr ɪt //UK // (diːˈmɛrɪt, ˈdiːˌmɛrɪt) //

违约金,赏罚分明,违约,过失

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
    • : the quality of being censurable or punishable; fault; culpability.
    • : Obsolete. merit or desert.

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Examples

  • He also remembers receiving demerit points for breaking a door and cursing at one of his houseparents.

  • His houseparents that year talked through his feelings and didn’t give him demerits, he said.

  • An offense that one set of houseparents might shrug off could result in demerits in another student home.

  • The merits, demerits, and awards chances of each film in a weird year at the Oscars.

  • Another demerit of the American system of employer-based coverage.

  • At West Point he graduated second in his class, and better than that, he never received a demerit all the time he was there.

  • Eliphaz represents the correct Jewish view that everything is reward or punishment for merit and demerit.

  • But, galled and stung by a sense of my follies and demerit, I strove to throw the blame on others.

  • I am room orderly this week, and am going to have things kept straight, for I can't afford to take any more demerit.

  • He had thus a strong feeling against him in Italy independent of any demerit of his own.