demerit
违约金,赏罚分明,违约,过失
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- : 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.