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demerit
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▲
Noun
A discreditable mark given to someone for bad conduct
A weakness or the quality of being inadequate
(
rare, dated
)
Detriment or disadvantage
The state or condition of being immoral or sinful
Verb
To reduce the (perceived) value or price of
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▲
Noun
▲
A discreditable mark given to someone for bad conduct
discredit
blemish
blot
dishonor
US
dishonour
UK
shame
smear
smirch
stigma
flaw
tarnish
disgrace
fault
slur
black mark
stain
spot
taint
brand
onus
scar
smudge
odium
defect
imperfection
blight
tarnishing
black eye
hint
suggestion
corruption
bad name
blot on the escutcheon
disrepute
ignominy
obloquy
infamy
opprobrium
disesteem
scandal
reproach
humiliation
censure
notoriety
blame
imputation
aspersion
damage
harm
ill repute
ill-repute
loss of reputation
loss of respect
disfavour
UK
disfavor
US
degradation
loss of face
embarrassment
contempt
abasement
indignity
reprobation
disrespect
reflection
unpopularity
ill fame
scorn
derogation
mortification
debasement
condemnation
ingloriousness
criticism
disapprobation
slight
derision
depreciation
contumely
detraction
slander
castigation
shamefulness
vilification
denunciation
offence
UK
disapproval
abuse
loss of pride
flak
upbraiding
scolding
vitiation
affront
offense
US
bad reputation
excoriation
humbling
discomfiture
ill favour
bad reflection
stricture
comedown
denigration
doghouse
disreputableness
mistrust
distrust
defamation
unhonour
UK
debasing
baseness
reproof
disparagement
notoriousness
reproval
bad books
ignobility
calumny
vituperation
admonishment
unhonor
US
bad odor
outrage
chiding
slam
injury
chagrin
objurgation
lambasting
bar sinister
insult
animadversion
humble pie
put down
character assassination
slap in the face
smack in the face
slagging off
tongue-lashing
blow to one's pride
loss of self-respect
disgracefulness
insignificancy
disreputability
dishonorableness
mark
hit
besmirchment
abomination
slap
impropriety
injustice
bad odour
ignominiousness
exposé
dump
loss of honor
lost face
treachery
source of discredit
misery
crime
loss of dignity
skeleton in the cupboard
unworthiness
rebuke
prostitution
pollution
disbarment
misgrace
sin
meanness
turpitude
culpability
venality
strife
reprimand
snub
condescension
admonition
submissiveness
resignation
rebuff
submission
lecture
kick in the teeth
self-abasement
mental pain
touché
brush-off
rap
remonstration
ridicule
eating crow
swallowing one's pride
roasting
carpeting
rollicking
earful
commination
disregard
belittlement
belittling
disdain
lessening
wigging
serve
accusation
reprehension
rating
chastisement
recrimination
deprecation
low esteem
vitriol
remonstrance
critique
mocking
slamming
slating
diminishment
lack of respectability
dressing-down
riot act
telling-off
faultfinding
panning
backstabbing
slagging
underestimation
berating
backbiting
slap on the wrist
ticking off
rap over the knuckles
ticking-off
carping
nitpicking
cavilling
UK
prejudice
cavil
roast
knocking
caviling
US
libel
fault-finding
invective
revilement
insults
verbal disapproval
nit-picking
calumniation
aspersions
stick
verbal
tirade
scurrility
attack
sideswipe
reviling
signifying
execration
mud-slinging
bad-mouthing
bad press
more ❯
“He sailed through the entire course without a single
demerit
against him, graduating second in a class of forty-six.”
Noun
▲
A weakness or the quality of being inadequate
weakness
failing
shortcoming
disadvantage
fault
imperfection
discredit
foible
frailty
dereliction
drawback
sin
vice
want
bad mark
loss of credit
loss of points
mark against one
feet of clay
flaw
defect
deficiency
limitation
weak point
blemish
inadequacy
weak spot
fallibility
Achilles heel
lack
infirmity
catch
failure
bug
snag
glitch
lapse
chink in your armour
downside
handicap
liability
disbenefit
problem
negative
minus
peccadillo
detriment
error
debility
hang-up
blind spot
fragility
hindrance
mar
idiosyncrasy
quirk
miscarriage
character flaw
inability to hack it
personal imperfection
bad habit
debit
strike
susceptibility
incommodity
vulnerability
peccability
difficulty
impairment
solecism
foil
suscept
flimsiness
sore point
chink in the armor
kink
instability
gap
hole
deformity
unsoundness
impediment
pitfall
harm
restriction
complication
constraint
hitch
con
stumbling block
taint
blot
gremlin
corruption
insufficiency
trouble
scarcity
shortfall
nuisance
obstacle
paucity
poverty
shortage
scarceness
dearth
inconvenience
hiccup
deficit
scantiness
pinch
leanness
curtailment
tightness
defalcation
scantness
underage
famine
hurdle
fly in the ointment
blight
disability
defectiveness
undersupply
drought
inadequateness
crunch
drouth
lacuna
spanner in the works
monkey wrench in the works
negative aspect
issue
obstruction
ill
downfall
faultiness
incompleteness
burden
affliction
encumbrance
drag
misfortune
albatross
absence
underbelly
soft spot
rarity
privation
weak link
weak side
fatal flaw
consequence
curse
block
bad
injury
loophole
uncommonness
infrequency
flip side
other side of the coin
discrepancy
errancy
unreliability
penalty
crack
aberration
hardship
crimp
cramp
fetter
misjudgement
character defect
trammel
afterdeal
hangup
imperfectness
irresolution
impotence
enervation
invalidity
undoing
vitiation
languor
powerlessness
feebleness
faintness
inconstancy
cross
millstone
cumber
soft underbelly
vulnerable point
weak area
baggage
jinx
cross to bear
bad news
disaster area
weakest link
millstone round one's neck
sparseness
downer
unavailability
vulnerable place
meagreness
sparsity
bummer
rareness
exiguity
limitedness
letdown
restrictedness
pity
disappointment
shame
comedown
annoyance
down
barrier
deterrent
check
curb
discouragement
penuriousness
extremity
destituteness
indigence
impoverishment
impecuniousness
austerity
need
starvation
pennilessness
impecuniosity
penury
poorness
beggary
deprivation
pauperism
destitution
neediness
pauperization
damper
evil
more ❯
“The book has one glaring
demerit
, which is that it is extremely difficult to read.”
Noun
▲
(
rare, dated
)
Detriment or disadvantage
despite
detriment
disadvantage
disservice
liability
disfavor
US
disfavour
UK
penalty
prejudice
harm
deprivation
loss
inconvenience
damage
injury
hurt
mischief
disbenefit
downside
drawback
minus
handicap
unpleasant aspect
difficulty
uphill battle
snag
Noun
▲
The state or condition of being immoral or sinful
sin
immorality
evil
iniquity
wickedness
sinfulness
ungodliness
unrighteousness
corruption
debauchery
impiousness
depravity
impiety
irreligiousness
licentiousness
profligacy
blasphemy
iniquitousness
irreverence
libertinage
libertinism
profanity
sacrilege
villainy
desecration
evildoing
fallenness
fault
foible
ill
imperfection
peccability
profanation
turpitude
bad
covetousness
damnation
disobedience
pride
scandal
sloth
tort
wrongness
vice
degeneracy
vileness
wrong
badness
wrongdoing
dissipation
baseness
perversion
offence
UK
dissolution
offense
US
dissoluteness
impurity
devilry
corruptness
heinousness
dishonesty
crime
debasement
wantonness
decadence
crookedness
impropriety
viciousness
evilness
degeneration
foulness
transgression
degradation
pervertedness
misdeed
misconduct
diablerie
evil-doing
indecency
deviltry
criminality
godlessness
atrocity
unscrupulousness
dishonor
US
dishonour
UK
degenerateness
decadency
lechery
knavery
promiscuity
atrociousness
nefariousness
dissipatedness
malfeasance
abjection
injustice
lewdness
lawlessness
looseness
shadiness
infamy
rakishness
devilishness
demoralization
US
delinquency
shamelessness
unholiness
demoralisation
UK
self-indulgence
salaciousness
defilement
vulgarity
abandon
libidinousness
lasciviousness
heresy
malignity
excess
maleficence
lubricity
depravedness
devilment
rascality
gluttony
roguery
profaneness
hideousness
sordidness
monstrosity
animalism
lustfulness
outrage
unchastity
malice
diabolicalness
dishonourableness
fiendishness
peccancy
salacity
sacrilegiousness
violation
wildness
prodigality
unrestraint
abuse
unruliness
sauciness
intemperance
depravation
mischief
naughtiness
enormity
unfairness
impishness
lecherousness
immodesty
disrespect
immoderation
abomination
malevolence
misdemeanour
UK
irreligion
misdemeanor
US
lack of morals
lack of principles
overindulgence
villainousness
unseemliness
cruelty
contemptibility
disreputableness
wretchedness
loucheness
despicability
flagitiousness
ignobility
indulgence
immoral behaviour
mischievousness
incontinence
abandonment
sinning
evil behavior
shenanigans
sybaritism
deceit
felony
hedonism
roguishness
duplicity
misdoing
treachery
disgrace
deceitfulness
laxity
chicanery
deception
injury
deceptiveness
fast living
obscenity
odiousness
egregiousness
monstrousness
outrageousness
dreadfulness
reprehensibility
underhandedness
sensuality
harm
maltreatment
unjustness
meanness
disorder
miscreancy
irresponsibility
mockery
anarchy
dereliction
unlawfulness
lust
insidiousness
forwardness
presumptuousness
boldness
effrontery
temerity
audacity
arrogance
complacency
refractoriness
slackness
curse
prurience
disrepute
mischief-making
darkness
uncleanness
lowness
decay
unhonor
US
unhonour
UK
antisocial behavior
bawdiness
revel
voluptuousness
immoderateness
concupiscence
carousal
bender
binge
revelry
tear
lack of restraint
la dolce vita
life in fast lane
pleasure-seeking
perniciousness
wrongfulness
bastardization
ruthlessness
mercilessness
disregard
misfortune
rottenness
shamefulness
hell
malpractice
error
improbity
indignity
unwholesomeness
unworthiness
unchasteness
brutality
recklessness
wastefulness
extravagance
foul play
prankishness
unprofessionalism
negligence
infringement
decline
malversation
trouble
shocker
trespass
deterioration
worsening
brutishness
devilishment
moral decay
vitiation
witchery
indelicacy
blemish
stain
immoral act
scumbaggery
squalor
witchcraft
ignominy
dereliction of duty
unethical behaviour
fornication
misbehaviour
UK
pettiness
high jinks
breach of ethics
bad deed
act of wickedness
misbehavior
US
skeleton in the closet
naughty act
black magic
evil magic
sleeping around
unkindness
oppression
persecution
exploitation
scurrilousness
scurrility
diabolism
malefaction
balefulness
unsavouriness
reprobation
fall from grace
loose morals
skeleton in the cupboard
rudeness
low-mindedness
evil deed
dirty deed
ill-doing
neglect
mistreatment
ill-treatment
misdeeds
sins
faults
offences
UK
offenses
US
mismanagement
manipulation
taking advantage
wrong use
waggery
waggishness
hob
tomfoolery
cheekiness
flagrancy
double-dealing
inhumanity
savagery
barbarity
barbarousness
savageness
heartlessness
barbarism
inhumanness
cruelness
truculence
bestiality
sadism
ferocity
bloodthirstiness
callousness
severity
murderousness
coarseness
horror
hard-heartedness
fierceness
spite
spitefulness
unfeelingness
coldness
venality
insensitiveness
insensibility
despotism
truculency
pitilessness
nastiness
venom
animality
rancour
UK
masochism
rancor
US
awfulness
grossness
rankness
fraud
grievousness
malignance
lawbreaking
perversity
sunfulness
harshness
epicureanism
drunkenness
ugliness
blackness
self-gratification
hostility
violence
ferity
torture
vindictiveness
cold-bloodedness
ghastliness
frightfulness
gruesomeness
peccantness
grisliness
horridness
promiscuousness
fraudulency
scoundrelism
repulsiveness
fall
laxness
schadenfreude
lack of self-control
lack of control
cheating
beastliness
sadomasochism
lack of sexual discrimination
imposture
swindling
sordidity
brutalism
horribleness
rot
obliquity
illegality
intemperateness
overconsumption
culpability
pleasure
luxury
guiltiness
sensualism
kinkiness
license
licence
deviation
abnormality
high living
hardheartedness
lotus-eating
deviancy
deviance
pursuit of pleasure
hatred
bitterness
high life
lack of self-restraint
shockingness
unnaturalness
animosity
villianousness
lavishness
hate
enmity
outrageous behavior
maliciousness
spleen
animus
remorselessness
malignancy
ferociousness
relentlessness
inclemency
cattiness
hatefulness
despite
cold-heartedness
vengefulness
black-heartedness
lack of regard
lack of sympathy
lack of charity
free-living
high-living
blood lust
going to hell in handbasket
poisonousness
life in the fast lane
venomousness
hurtfulness
ill will
bad blood
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Verb
▲
To reduce the (perceived) value or price of
downgrade
reduce
lower
depreciate
devalue
devaluate
depress
cheapen
decrease
sink
attenuate
devalorize
undervalue
abase
bench
bump
declass
mark down
write down
write off
take down a peg
cut
discount
slash
drop
knock down
diminish
curb
pare
abate
deduct
bring down
cut down
cut back
rein in
curtail
taper
disgrade
scale down
wind down
drive down
subtract
temper
decrement
break
lessen
axe
UK
ax
US
moderate
minimize
US
degrade
deflate
decline
ease
dwindle
minimise
UK
downscale
clip
put down
fall
deplete
limit
nosedive
minify
erode
downsize
shave
lower in price
dent
trim
keep down
dial down
run down
roll back
de-escalate
make cutbacks in
pare down
ease off
slow
dip
debase
prune
demote
slip
cause to fall
slim down
ease up on
retrogress
plunge
sag
lighten
mitigate
cut back on
crash
subside
slump
plummet
become lower
shorten
quell
become softer
become quieter
get lower
decay
deteriorate
soften
worsen
alleviate
tone down
couch
wane
taper off
restrain
relax
shed
get quieter
get softer
slacken
dry up
tighten
dilute
amortise
UK
take down
trim down
restrict
ebb
make less
trim back
qualify
drop off
impair
whittle down
take the edge off
whittle
amortize
US
step down
make smaller
tail off
weaken
peter out
slow down
cast down
extenuate
go down
lower in value
get rid of
reduce greatly
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