(n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
(n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
(n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
(n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
(n.) To depreciate or cry down.
(v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the purpose of covering the demerits of the conventional sliding tube, a new slit sliding tube which is made up of three parts was devised by us.
(2) We have a ton of education out there about the merits and demerits of particular courses and institutions and it is not helping to inform decision-making."
(3) He said: “With respect to the Paris accord, the focus is on the efficacy, the merits of the deal and the demerits of the deal.
(4) The fatal demerit of resin materials which causes a marginal sealing defect or marginal fracture is hard to eliminate.
(5) DeMerit did it his way though, and deserves his moment of acknowledgement.
(6) Anyone who does not gets a demerit, leading to a detention.
(7) An extended lymphadenectomy including cervical node dissection is one of the most difficult operations, therefore its merits and demerits should be assessed in order to evaluate whether it has the significance of extended radical operation or not.
(8) In this paper, the merits and demerits of the drugs, which have been revealed by experimental studies in humans and animals, are reviewed.
(9) I want them to know that I’m not going to just roll over.” GR Jay DeMerit’s retirement marks end of a very particular era A lot has been made of what may become a dominant theme in MLS over the next couple of years — the return of top American players to MLS, or even the retention of talent (such as Besler signing his improved contract at Kansas City).
(10) The merits and demerits of established methods such as subtotal gastrectomy, truncal vagotomy with drainage and truncal vagotomy with antrectomy are discussed from the viewpoint of operative mortality, recurrence rate and postoperative sequelae.
(11) The rationale behind their use, the parameters for determining their efficacy, their merits and demerits are discussed and the future prospects are highlighted.
(12) And while DeMerit has probably chosen the right time to call it a day, Carl Robinson would have loved at least another year of peak production from his captains as he tries to build some solidity into a talented but sometimes flaky Vancouver team.
(13) The records of drivers, selected from the file of licensed drivers in Ontario, were reviewed to study the relationship between demerit points, other driver characteristics, and the frequency or risk of future collisions and traffic convictions.
(14) These demerits were attempted to be conqured with epidural pressure monitorings such as the fiberoptic sensor (Ladd) in 17 cases, the intracranial catheter tip pressure transducer (Gaeltec) in nine cases and the sensor of bioimplantable polymer (Plastimed) in three cases.
(15) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
(16) In Japan, there is still much controversy surrounding the merits and demerits of informing patients of a cancer diagnosis.
(17) Since each technique has both merits and demerits, the technique most suited to the particular laboratory should be selected.
(18) In addition to merits and demerits of these methods, their interchangeability was determined.
(19) The merits and the demerits of various antimicrobial agents have been outlined with the causes of failure of treatment in the developing countries.
(20) Carlyle Mitchell, one of Vancouver’s remaining center backs had a night to forget in the first game of the post-DeMerit era, conceding an unnecessary penalty in the first half of Sunday evening’s 2-2 draw with FC Dallas , and getting very lucky when his keeper David Ousted managed to get a hand to a skewed clearance that was heading towards goal.
Inadequate
Definition:
(a.) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(2) Treatment for diabetic neuropathy remains inadequate.
(3) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(4) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(5) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(6) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(7) Furthermore, a single initial field may constitute an inadequate baseline for clinical follow-up.
(8) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(9) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(10) These results suggest that the Eco RI site in the flanking region of the 21-hydroxylase gene may be modified in adrenal cancer tissue, and that inadequate 21-hydroxylase is present in some forms of adrenal cancers.
(11) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(12) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(13) The relatively high HI titres observed, particularly in adults, imply that antigenic restimulation of antibody against measles occurs and thus that coverage by immunization remains inadequate.
(14) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(15) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
(16) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(17) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(18) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(19) No difference was found in the extent of infarct size, occurrence of heart failure, arrhythmias, and mortality when comparing the adequately with the inadequately controlled diabetics during a hospitalization period of 11 days.
(20) Six patients had a partial, but inadequate response, while four did not respond.