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Example sentences for: comeuppance

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Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.
But he stretched too far, in his price tag and his claims, and now Kloss' Cambridge has delivered his comeuppance.
Or a comeuppance may lead to a bringdown .
Like NYU's list, Slate 'slist has only two discernible effects: It validates already popular opinions (Did you already think Reich's book deserved a comeuppance?
He might be seen to have got his final comeuppance at the hands of one correspondent, who wrote at length as follows about the etymology of Cambridge: