Demerits
[dɪ'merɪts]
Examples
- Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I immediately began to discuss the merits and demerits of Frederick with my usual and abrupt frankness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Everything natural, probable, reasonable, was against it; all their habits and ways of thinking, and all her own demerits. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Tim