demerits

plural of demerit

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Recent Examples of demerits No establishments scored more than 30 demerits during this round of inspections. Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demerits
Noun
  • How does the relative length of our haunting reflect our collective moral strengths and weaknesses?
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Looking at the current state of the roster, there are not many major weaknesses.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not of any one person, but of Florida with its beauty and its faults, and the imagined communities of young men who could inhabit it.
    Vogue, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • By scouring two years of police body cam footage, Gandbhir hoped to turn a tool intended to protect police into a tool that exposes their faults.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Death in the Family does not tap into our empathy for them so much as our own sense of aggrievement at having to exist in a world where people like the Murdaughs can skate by without consequences for even the worst of their sins.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In 1998, audiences might have experienced Ragtime as a parable of past sins long overcome.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Judge has the same flaw in postseason shortcomings, both individually as a team.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • By now, the Jolly Rancher had vanished, as had a round of the house’s elegant dirty Martini, whose shortcomings in grit were made up for in potency.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Demerits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demerits. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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