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Pronunciation: [dˈɛməɹˌɪts] (IPA)

Demerits are negative marks or points that are given for failing to meet expectations or for exhibiting undesirable behavior. Synonyms for the word "demerits" include faults, shortcomings, drawbacks, limitations, disadvantages, weakness, inferiority, blemishes, imperfections, deficiencies, and weaknesses. These synonyms suggest that demerits are features or aspects that detract from the overall quality or desirability of something. For example, a product might have several demerits that make it less appealing to consumers, such as poor performance, high cost, or limited functionality. Understanding these synonyms can help you better articulate and describe the negative aspects of an object, idea, or situation.

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Usage examples for Demerits

But whatever the economic merits or demerits of the tariff, I take pleasure in bearing testimony to the civility with which I found it enforced.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Just at present it is the fashion in Anglican circles to heap ridicule and contempt on The Proposed Book out of all proportion to its real demerits.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
In the Convention of 1789 The Proposed Book does not seem to have been seriously considered in open debate at all, though doubtless there was much talk about it, much controversy over its merits and demerits at Philadelphia dinner-tables and elsewhere while the session was in progress.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington

Famous quotes with Demerits

  • You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
    Donella Meadows
  • Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
    Sallust
  • Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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