demerit

puute

miinuspiste (senseid) A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage
Burke

They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action.

Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense.

A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S. Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was "the day I left West Point." (Laughter.)

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, they acquired this reputation.

You hold that every sin is an infinite evil, demeriting endless punishment.

If I have demerited any love or thanks.

Faith by her own dignity and worthiness doth not demerit justice and righteousness; but receiveth and embraceth the same offered unto us in the gospel (..)