demerit

Another demerit of the American system of employer-based coverage.

At West Point he graduated second in his class, and better than that, he never received a demerit all the time he was there.

Eliphaz represents the correct Jewish view that everything is reward or punishment for merit and demerit.

But, galled and stung by a sense of my follies and demerit, I strove to throw the blame on others.

I am room orderly this week, and am going to have things kept straight, for I can't afford to take any more demerit.

He had thus a strong feeling against him in Italy independent of any demerit of his own.