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comeuppance

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Comeuppance (noun) means a fair punishment or result that someone has brought on themselves.

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A fair punishment or result that someone has brought on themselves.

"But even friends like Tom Downey thought a little comeuppance might not necessarily have been a bad thing for a man who approached life as if he were always the smartest person in the room." — Bill Turque, Inventing Al Gore: A Biography (2014)

"More comeuppance comes when the two play on the national team eight years later." — , Pelé: Birth of a Legend – biopic of soccer's greatest is a terrible own goal (2016)

"But in medieval Scotland, the king had absolute power so there wasn't much comeuppance for him." — , The murder of William, Earl of Douglas is to be investigated 600 years on as part of Bloody Scotland festival (2014)

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