Andrew Breitbart

Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.

American Businessman

P. J. O'Rourke

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

American Comedian

Ian McElhinney

On another level I'd unfortunately read the books. I knew Barristan had a different story in the books and I was hoping for a bit more of Barristan alive before he met his comeuppance... well, comeuppance is unfair, he didn't deserve a comeuppance.

Irish Actor

Vince Gilligan

For many decades - and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks' standards-and-practices department - bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business.

American Writer

Maria Shriver

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

American Journalist

George A. Romero

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

American Director

Matt Stone

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

American Producer

Charles Bronson

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

American Actor

Comeuppance often implies negative consequences for someone's actions, suggesting a moral lesson.

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Stressing 'comeuppance' in a sentence intensifies the feeling that justice was served.

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Often used in stories to describe a twist where a character faces the result of their deeds.

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