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
One intonation may express sadness, another comeuppance.
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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
Ultimately, those without humility have their justified comeuppance.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2025
Expect a lot of blood, a lot of narration, and hopefully some kind of comeuppance for our brunet baddie.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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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
Ultimately, those without humility have their justified comeuppance.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2025
Expect a lot of blood, a lot of narration, and hopefully some kind of comeuppance for our brunet baddie.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comeuppance
Noun
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Throughout, the novel chips away at its foundational questions: Does there exist a punishment equal to the atrocity of killing one’s child?—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The least successful team members in each episode endures a final punishment.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Does that mean the nine California Republicans, all of whom voted last month for the tax and spending bill, could face his political wrath?—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
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More to Read Voices Contributor: Once, international students feared Beijing’s wrath.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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Using one's car as a weapon against another competitor on track is unacceptable, and the 10-second penalty that Verstappen earned as a result dropped him to 10th place at the end, ruining his own race more than anyone else's.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2025
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Soto has been assessed such a penalty in 2019, 2022 and 2023, and narrowly missed getting one in 2024.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Comeuppance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comeuppance. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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