Demerits is valid Scrabble Word

Is demerits a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DEMERITS in dictionary:

VERB:

DEMERIT, to lower in status

NOUN:

a fault or disadvantage
a mark awarded against someone for a fault or offence.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to lower in rank or status

Words related to DEMERITS

demerit10 demerited13 demeriting14

How to use DEMERITS in a sentence

Yet they were guilty of many pranks which, had the midshipmen been caught, would have resulted in demerits.
I shall not be foolish enough to enter here into the merits or demerits of the Picton case, which once made such a noise in England.
As they all accomplish the same purpose it is not necessary for us to discuss the merits or demerits of either.
They leave no room for amendment, and seem to have a brutal delight in confounding the demerits of offenders.
So, from the narratives in this book, one may select just the material which supports his theory as to the merits or demerits of any nation.
It is, however, an earnest contribution to a very important discussion, and, I venture to hope, with all its demerits, a useful one.
On some railroads, a graded system of demerits is used.
When an employee has received a certain number of demerits he is dismissed from the service.
Even more than his merits, his demerits pointed him out as a man to be a friend to a young woman who wanted one.
Whatever the demerits of the rogue, our young traveller above stairs, would have regarded him as the victim of a too sharp justice.

His demerits were too unmistakable for rhetoric to hide.
Whatever the demerits of the work may be, it can at least claim to be an original collection of material fresh from nature, and not a reproduction from books.
As to myself, I thought it a duty to be, on that occasion, a passive auditor of the opinions of others, more impartial judges than I could be, of its merits or demerits.
The merits or demerits of the Partition of Bengal have already been discussed to satiety.
The merits or demerits of this Government we need not trouble about.
The journal contained an article on my merits and demerits as a writer, the latter being treated with a good deal of freedom.
But as a pretence was wanted, besides their old demerits, for justifying the intended rigors against all of them, this reason, however slight, was greedily laid hold of.
The Government, however, owes its triumph, not so much to its own inherent merits, as to the demerits of those who wished to supplant it.
Then there was a Powder Monkey and a Coxswain, and other naval officers, who were generally famous for what used to be called demerits.
But what are its demerits? That by marking his vote you expose the voter to be tempted through his cupidity and through his fears.
I have not attempted, and shall not permit myself to be drawn into any discussion of the merits or demerits of slavery as an ethical or even as a political question.
The demerits you censure in English Judaism are all departures from the old way of living.
How many contemporaries of George Selwyn had their eyes opened by this clear statement of their demerits there are no means of ascertaining.
Their merits and demerits and all its changes and modifications take place in accordance with merits and demerits.
It is on account of their merits or demerits that the jivas are born as gods, men, animals, or denizens of hell.
These demerits, according to their number, bring loss of prized privileges.
That was why you put me in line for demerits and punishment tour walking.
Of course no demerits were imposed as a result of the crazy reports ordered by Midshipman Clairy on that memorable night.
First offense of having tobacco in possession calls for twenty-five demerits.
Dave, I have a lease of life here amounting to fifty-four more demerits in this term.
As time passed, and he confessed himself unable to secure any such evidence, one set of demerits after another accumulated against Mr.
They discuss the merits and demerits of bills, and perfect such as, in their judgment, should pass.
The merits or demerits of British policy must always remain a matter of controversy.

Similar words containing MERIT without suffix s and without prefix de

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