as in punishment
suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense
as with many action movies, this one ends with a wild chase and an over-the-top fight sequence in which the bad guys finally get their comeuppance
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Recent Examples of comeuppance
Swat is coerced into taking on the role or finally getting legal comeuppances for all of his misdeeds and ends up taking on solving the mystery of a series of disappearances plaguing Echo city.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 May 2025
The mainstream consensus solidified: The robbery was karma, comeuppance, a corrective to all that vacuous extravagance and clueless exhibitionism.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
One intonation may express sadness, another comeuppance.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
The five-chapter Final Destination movie series gets a reboot with Final Destination: Bloodlines, which follows the horror film series’ premise about people who cheat death, only for death to come looking for them with grisly comeuppances.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 May 2025
The mainstream consensus solidified: The robbery was karma, comeuppance, a corrective to all that vacuous extravagance and clueless exhibitionism.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
One intonation may express sadness, another comeuppance.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
The five-chapter Final Destination movie series gets a reboot with Final Destination: Bloodlines, which follows the horror film series’ premise about people who cheat death, only for death to come looking for them with grisly comeuppances.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comeuppance
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Mackenzie sued, arguing that under the Constitution, her American birth gave her citizenship as a right, not a privilege, to be removed only as punishment for a crime or through voluntary expatriation.—
Marcia Biederman,
Hartford Courant,
13 July 2025
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In April, the U.S. government revoked all South Sudanese visas as punishment for the country after its government refused to accept a deportee who was in fact from the Democratic Republic of Congo.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Arriving in 2014 – after earning the wrath of the Egyptian government for covering the Arab Spring as a freelance journalist – one of Greater Cincinnati’s newest immigration detainees has lived in Oregon, Chicago and Cincinnati.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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Democrats weren’t the only ones to feel the wrath of Minaj on Tuesday.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
9 July 2025
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The law allows for inspections and gives the department power to revoke licenses and impose penalties on breeders.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
8 July 2025
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This transition helped the company avoid a potential IRS audit, preventing costly penalties and giving them peace of mind.—
Loran Armstrong,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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“Comeuppance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comeuppance. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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