Definitionn. a mark against a person for misconduct or failure
Last update: June 7, 2015
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The demerits of the system are innumerable. [Please select]
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Our direct sympathy with the agent in the circumstances in which he is placed gives rise, according to this view, to our notion of the propriety of his action, whilst our indirect sympathy with those whom his actions have benefited or injured gives rise to our notions of merit and demerit in the agent himself. [Please select]
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They have thus the demerit of being tender as well as ugly. [Please select]
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The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. [Please select]
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It was a reward of demerit for not being respectable, and a preventive of further sins. [Please select]
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Your remark, however, would seem to imply demerit on his part. [Please select]
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But if it should appear, on examination, to be at least as fallible as intellect, its greater subjective certainty becomes a demerit, making it only the more irresistibly deceptive. [Please select]
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What demerit had this little girl that she should be ordered to give up her health and life only that others might wear fine raiment and live in kings' houses. [Please select]
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