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What is a comeuppance?

What is a comeuppance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A negative outcome which is justly deserved.
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It's rare that an actor can not only deserve his comeuppance but maintain your sympathy while getting it.
Some were probably hoping the students would get their comeuppance, but death was more than they deserved.
I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.
Because the stories were true, the comeuppance of criminals rang even truer.
I kept thinking that the last pages must be missing, the ones with the comeuppance, but there's none.
Daffy scares everyone with his pranking, but he gets his comeuppance when Granny and the kiddos give him a taste of his own medicine.

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