How to Use demerit in a Sentence

demerit

noun

• Students are given demerits if they arrive late for classes.
• The story didn’t call Bannon a racist, a demerit in the eyes of some readers.
  — Liz Spayd, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2016
• The state can suspend a permit for one to three years, depending on the number of demerits.
  — Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2018
• This mpg demerit is most likely due to the Touring's larger 17-inch wheels.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2020
• The drivetrain in the MX-30 feels detuned, maybe to stretch the range of its small battery pack, which leads us to our next performance demerit.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Oct. 2021
• Demerits and the type of violation dictates whether a pool can stay open.
  — Anna Douglas, charlotteobserver, 26 May 2017
• The movie’s one major demerit is a lack of screen time for Cheadle, whose character is a welcome presence in the book.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• The acetate frames are produced in China — which shouldn’t be taken as a demerit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• So count a predictable rise in pig injuries and deaths as a demerit for Proposition 12 — and a cost to farmers and consumers.
  — Will Swaim, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
• His only demerits on Sunday were two leadoff walks, but only one came back to bite him.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 27 May 2024
• There’s a system here of rewards and demerits, known as Power Points, that helps the kids understand the value of a currency.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The moment is ripe for a short book that explains the merits and demerits of America’s financial sector.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
• The restaurant was cited for eight demerits and received an A grade after a July 2017 inspection, state records show.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• San Diego’s beloved architecture competition — Orchids and Onions — is back with awards for the best new buildings and projects, as well as demerits for designs that missed the mark.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
• Did Jonathan Taylor, who clearly has a fumbling issue, his only demerit, seemed to slow up after the point of initial contact?
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2017
• Trump himself appears to be wrangling in real time with the benefits and demerits of either approach.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• Among Academy’s first collection, there are a handful of pieces that would surely earn demerits.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• In other words, the restaurants were clean as a whistle and city health inspectors didn't hand out demerits for roaches, rodent droppings or dirty kitchen equipment.
  — Carolina Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
• The future senator chafed under the strict rules of the school, drawing demerits, but just as many friends who gravitated to his quick wit and adventurous ways.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 10 May 2018
• Sharpton is unworthy of such praise, so much so that the decision to back him reflexively is a massive moral demerit.
  — Seth Mandel, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
• Second, under their system, there’s no way to assign a president credit for a success and give him demerits for a failure.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2017
• Some might give Luca demerits for not being as ambitious as either 2020 Pixar movie, Onward or Soul.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2023
• The demerits in the budget belong with the annual discretionary accounts.
  — Douglas Holtz-Eakin, CNN, 27 May 2017
• These early forays into self-expression were rewarded with demerits, and in time Echevarria was shown the door.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• Dirty shoes, laddered stockings, and other infractions incurred demerits, which could lead to a Bunny being fined or even fired.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Only five of those games have featured one of his runners coming around to score, but those jams bring up another big demerit: Of the 13 baserunners Lange has inherited, five have scored, or 38%.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2022
• Pools with health or safety violations are given demerits, which are weighted by the severity of the problem.
  — Anna Douglas, charlotteobserver, 26 May 2017
• Tall and commanding, with a profile that could have been chiseled on an Etruscan coin, critics assigned demerits to Heston for...
  — Scott Eyman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2017
• The right to freely examine the moral and the immoral, the prudent and the foolish, the practical and the inefficient, and the right to argue for their merits or demerits remain indispensable for a healthy republic.
  — Time, 11 Sep. 2017
• The only demerit is that there occasionally are abrupt gearchanges.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024