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come-uppance en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually) Alternative form of comeuppance.
He preserves a deep yearning to see sinners get their come-uppance here on earth.
2015, Alistair Cooke, Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements, →ISBN:More people would pay, wrote Deputy Minister Pokrovskii, less to satisfy the need for revenue and more as come-uppance for the past shirking that was now unacceptable.
2014, Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic, →ISBN:Catwoman had been threatened since 1992, when Michelle Pfeiffer purred her way into our hearts as Batman's feline come-uppance in Batman Returns.
2015, Christopher Tookey, Tookey's Turkeys: The Most Annoying 144 Films From the Last 25 Years, →ISBN:A generation-long sequence of mistakes, omissions and delusion was about to receive its come-uppance.
2010, Will Hutton, Them And Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society, →ISBN:
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