comeuppance
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comeuppance englanniksi
Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
{{quote-text|en|year=1883|editor=Albion Winegar Tourgée|title=The Continent; an illustrated weekly magazine|volume=3
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{{quote-journal|en|date=October 13 1958|title=Yankee Comeuppance in a Lousy Inning|journal=(magazine)|Life|volume=45|number=15|page=34
(quote-book) A Contemporary Version|publisher=HarperSanFrancisco|year=2000|page=238|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris0000grif/page/238/mode/1up|isbn=0-06-063400-6|passage= I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|editors=Peter Hunt; Sheila G. Bannister Ray|title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|page=862
(quote-journal) But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in "Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing," showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.
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