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comeuppance

[ US /ˌkəˈməpəns/ ]
[ UK /kʌmˈʌpəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting

How To Use comeuppance In A Sentence

  • You would get your comeuppance. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • These fine visitors, I thought, were in for what I can only describe as a culinary comeuppance.
  • I do hope he gets his comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
  • I kept thinking that the last pages must be missing, the ones with the comeuppance, but there's none.
  • And after that, Better The Demon You Know, when Asmodeus gets his comeuppance in a big way ... mwah hah hah! Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
  • This is not aq Clinton backer getting his comeuppance --- this is an Arkansas governor paying homage to his predecessor with the highest form of flattery ---- imitation. Huckabee Lashes Out At "Left-Wing" Huffington Post
  • If you love to hate the superrich, The Valet, a delectable comedy in which the great French actor Daniel Auteuil portrays a piggy billionaire industrialist facing his comeuppance, is a sinfully delicious bonbon," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Francis Veber.
  • It's not much of a comeuppance for a 65-year-old ex-CEO who never has to work again anyway.
  • The central character is a bad man who shoots people and gets his comeuppance.
  • You'll get your comeuppance in due time.
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