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- noun Alternative form of
comeuppance .
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- noun an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved
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Examples
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I would have thought every cop in the Met wanted to see this cretin get his comeupance.
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I mean its not like she murdered some innocent person in cold blood and is awaiting her comeupance on death row.
Paris Hilton does a pro-McCain ad! Ann Althouse 2008
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I would have loved to have been there when the 'elderly' man got him comeupance.
One Aw-some Day Sharon Bakar 2005
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Are the Liberal Democrats facing a day of comeupance in 2008?
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Then he accidentally swallows a duck and gets his comeupance.
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He got his comeupance and no longer works there, but it took careful record keeping of each and every instance to force the company to do something about it.
bully 2005
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At some point, the crimes of a government/army become so great that they become the crimes of a society tortured analysis I know, but true, and at that point, the society deserves comeupance.
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Now the judge agrees with us, and Toll gets her comeupance.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local USAliberty4evr 2010
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So, Tingles and Wheezie got their comeupance today ... excellent!
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You may very well have you own unpleasant comeupance and you would deserve such.
mollusque commented on the word comeupance
See comeuppance.
March 14, 2009
bilby commented on the word comeupance
There's no trumping Universal Pictures.
March 14, 2009