(n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
(n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
(n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
(n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
(n.) To reward.
(v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(4) A new figure of merit, the limit of identification, is introduced.
(5) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(6) The results of this study, combined with those of previous studies, suggest that factor VII may be a useful additional marker of the risk for ischemic heart disease and merits further investigation.
(7) Patients with normal blood lipid livel merit special attention.
(8) Response to norepinephrine was 15, 20, 18, and 15% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers and response to epinephrine was 12, 20, 14, and 50% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers at 30, 60, 180, and 349 d postpartum.
(9) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
(12) Frequency of sensitivity to foods, preservatives, colouring agents, medical substances, principally shown by provocation tests (the latter present a considerable interest, and merit frequent use); importance of bacterian, mycotic, parasitic origins; little importance of atopy; frequency of minor psychogenic disorders.
(13) The merits of formaldehyde, formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde combinations, and glutaraldehyde in phosphate buffers have been compared as fixatives that will give easy and satisfactory preservation of tissues for routine automated histologic processing and yet keep them suitable for electron microscopical studies after prolonged storage at room temperature.
(14) In the late post-operative period these patients developed complications which merited a surgical reintervention.
(15) Each of the five hospitals denied the doctors privileges without reaching the merits of the doctors' qualifications.
(16) However, submucosal resection of the septum is a rapid, but traumatic surgical method, which has its merits in duration and tradition.
(17) To assess quantitatively the merits of internal standardization, an amino acid mixture of known composition has been analyzed by conventional automated amino acid analysis before and after being subjected to total acid hydrolysis.
(18) Uefa has said it is open to proposals about the future of the competition, amid disquiet from clubs outside England about the spending power of Premier League clubs in the wake of their £8.3bn TV deal, but is expected to strongly resist any move to propose qualification should be on anything other than merit.
(19) Assumptions, bases for choice, and relative merits of these two modeling strategies are discussed.
(20) The increased frequency during the initial stage of the endoscopy, which may assume an already dangerous dimension for patients with coronary heart disease, merits particular attention.
Odious
Definition:
(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
(3) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(4) Bear-baiting was an odious entertainment, but remained legal in Britain until 1835, when it was banned by parliament.
(5) – and few Democrats had trouble understanding why such a "request" was so odious.
(6) Odious debt is a legal term usually applied to the endowments of dictators in the developing world.
(7) Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".
(8) They required Cameron's personal stamp of approval on an odious regime before signing.
(9) I know that the chances of getting any of this debt recognised as odious, especially by the current government, are small to say the least.
(10) And for an internet campaign, it is the answer to dealing with the odious pick-up artist and “guru” Julien Blanc .
(11) Those who still cling to the worryingly fashionable idea that the British Empire was ultimately a force for civilisation, order and the building of railways should now look away; the presence of the Cajun people in Louisiana attests to one of the more odious chapters of our colonial history.
(12) In a brief statement, Sarkozy told Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg that he condemned "with the utmost gravity this odious and unacceptable action" that had taken place, and conveyed French sympathy to the Norwegian people.
(13) Robin Williams's schoolteacher in 2009's World's Greatest Dad is plagued by his odious teen.
(14) President Barack Obama rebranded the "war on terror" innocuously as "overseas contingency operations", but, rather than retrench from the odious practices of his predecessor, Obama instead escalated.
(15) I can excoriate, deplore and refuse all dealings with odious speech or publication.
(16) US president Barack Obama called it "odious" and said it is "unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are".
(17) When the bill was first proposed, Barack Obama called it "odious".
(18) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(19) A prime minister using such irresponsible and odious language about desperate people deserves widespread criticism.
(20) If the extremist’s opinions are demonstrably odious and absurd, then what better way could there possibly be to expose them than the bright light of open, public debate?