He got his comeuppance.
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Comeuppance
//kʌmˈʌpəns//
Synonyms for "comeuppance" (27 found)
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22 translations across 15 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قِصَاص عَادِل noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 報應 /报应 noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Czech
1 entries- spravedlivý trest noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Danish
1 entries- løn som fortjent noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Finnish
2 entries- ansaittu rangaistus noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- sopiva rangaistus noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
French
1 entries- châtiment noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Galician
1 entries- merecido noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
German
2 entries- Quittung noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- die wohlverdiente Strafe noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Hungarian
2 entries- juss noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- megérdemelt büntetés noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Indonesian
1 entries- kualat noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Norwegian
1 entries- lønn som fortjent noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Russian
1 entries- заслуженное наказа́ние noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zaslužena kazna noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Spanish
2 entries- escarmiento noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- merecido noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Ukrainian
4 entries- заслужене покарання noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- належна кара noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- належне noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
- прочухан noun (an outcome that is justly deserved)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Atheists will get their comeuppance on Judgment Day.
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She got her comeuppance.
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Assholes getting their just comeuppance, you love to see it.
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