Demerit is valid Scrabble Word

Is demerit a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DEMERIT in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

a fault or disadvantage
a mark awarded against someone for a fault or offence.
fault, disadvantage
That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
The state of one who deserves ill.
To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.

To depreciate or cry down.
a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to lower in rank or status

Words related to DEMERIT

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Words that contain DEMERIT

demerits11 demerited13 demeriting14 demeritorious16 demeritoriously21

How to use DEMERIT in a sentence

It is fit, Sir, that you should judge of my regard for you by your own conscienceness of demerit.
Will may Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit.
A demerit conduct roll is made out each year, and a copy sent to the War Department.
In the calculations for demerit, while idleness in the Academy obtains a mark of three, disobedience to a superior officer is marked eight.
There is no reason to suppose that the sin and demerit he speaks of is that of leaving his home.
Hence the circumstance of the creation being unequal is due to the merit and demerit of the living creatures created, and is not a fault for which the Lord is to blame.
We are struck in this case not merely with a sense of disproportion and unfitness, but we cannot refrain from attributing no small part of his intellectual to a moral demerit.
But all this merit or demerit is matter of mere language only.
For the free-will bears the same relation to merit as to demerit.
But merit and demerit bear relation to the body only in so far as it is the instrument of the soul.

The commons, in order to express their sense of his demerit, presented an address to the king, desiring he might be excepted out of the intended act of grace.
His favorites and ministers, who were as yet allowed to remain about his person, failed not to aggravate the injury which without any demerit on his part, had been offered to him.
Whenever the inspecting officer found anything wrong about the room, he simply glanced at the orderly board, and down went the demerit against the lad whose name was posted there.
The judgment of merit and demerit is intimately connected with the judgment of good and evil.
Demerit, the natural right which others have to punish us, 723-l.
Immortality demonstrated by the law of merit and demerit, 706-l.
Justice of God and the law of merit and demerit the foundations of human faith, 706-u.
Principles of the justness of God and the law of merit and demerit necessary to faith, 706-u.
A man would no more think of the merit and demerit of his sentiments than of the beauty or deformity of his own face.
His remarks on the sense of Merit and Demerit in the agent are trivial or commonplace.
Right and wrong, good and evil, merit and demerit belong to actions.
It is ascertained pretty conclusively that the Bill for replacing that system was conceived and drawn by Burke, and that to him belongs whatever merit or demerit it might possess.
Many Nyâya books do not speak of the appointment of a Brahmâ as deputy for supervision of the due disposal of the fruits of karma according to merit or demerit.
It should however be remembered that merit and demerit act as concomitant causes in their production.
Demerit for absences and other irregularities is also marked in like manner, and made the basis of discipline.
They see indeed the evil of sin, and are sensible of its demerit? that they deserve destruction.
From the knowledge of our capacity, and liberty of choice, ariseth sense of merit and demerit.
But the source whence power is derived is out of the question respecting the merit or demerit attending the use of it.
Though sensible of his own demerit, fear did not drive him away from the Savior, but induced him to return to him and put his whole trust in him.
But there is a material difference between an office to be reformed and a pension taken away for demerit.
Karma is also used in the more concrete sense of the merit or demerit acquired by various acts.
If the first part seemed somewhat tropical, comparison with what follows will acquit it of that demerit.
To say so much only of this book would be not to attribute to it a positive merit, but only to acquit it of damning demerit.

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