come-uppance

A form of comeuppance — Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.

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Meanings

nouncome-uppance (usually uncountable, plural come-uppances)

plural come-uppances

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative 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
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    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

    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
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APA

come-uppance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/come-uppance

MLA

“come-uppance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/come-uppance. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “come-uppance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/come-uppance.

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