Demetrias
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Demerits piled up faster than the homework assignments McCain often ignored.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2018
Now that the Tokyo market is on a rocky slide, investors have labeled the culprits the Triple Demerits: a weakening yen, growing inflation and rising interest rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Demerits come for everything from dozing in class to "questioning an officer"�a rule designed to keep cadets from humiliating inexperienced instructors with tricky questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Demerits and detention slips will be sent via automat.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
This indeed was taking away the poor Wretches sole Subsistence, and putting him just upon an Equality with his Demerits.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
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