What is "demerits"

Usage examples of "demerits".

Well, a couple of extra demerits wouldn't hurt him, though he'd already earned four when he'd cannoned into me in Earthport Station.

Twice for cadets who didn't work off demerits fast enough, and once last week .

Now I can tell him I knocked you down, babbled every time I saw you, and earned more demerits in two weeks than I did in a year as a cadet.

He wasn't a middy, subject to demerits, but he 'd learn it was risky to goad a Captain, even shoreside.

I said with malice, "Perhaps two more demerits would improve your attitude, Ms.

For the next hour or so, we sat at the study tables in our common room, and Rory held the floor with tales of strict instructors, cadets working off demerits by mucking out the stables, hazing from older cadets, and every other Academy tale that he could dredge up for us.

Next couple of weeks, no matter how hard we try, they’ll ride us hard, find little things to fault us on, and hand out extra duties or make us march demerits or roust us out of our bunks in the middle of the night for nothin’.

He smelled of sweat from marching off his demerits, not clean man’s sweat, but a sour spoiled-bacon stink.

There was no shame associated with earning the demerits, only annoyance.

Life at the academy did not become easier for our portly friend, for despite drilling and the marching of his numerous demerits he grew no leaner, though he did seem to become both stronger and gain more endurance, both for physical exercise and the routine harassment that came with his girth.

Third-year cadet officers had the power to issue demerits, and did so liberally.

They had added three more demerits to my original one, and now charitably suggested that I could immediately work them off by marching round them in a circle, singing my House song at the top of my lungs.

That, they blamed on each other, and had demerits of their own to march off.

All the second-years were late to the parade ground and awarded demerits as a result.

We marched off the demerits, kept our eyes down and seemed to submit to them, but at night, after lights-out, we often gathered to whisper and rejoice in our defiance.