0 a person's bad luck that is considered to be a fair and deserved punishment for something bad that they have done: --
She'll get her comeuppance.
1 a punishment or some bad luck that is considered to be fair and deserved punishment for something bad that someone has done: --
She’ll get her comeuppance, don’t worry.
Stories were generally moralistic in tone, with long-suffering heroines finally achieving happiness, while villainous relatives or girls who were liars, cheats and bullies received their comeuppance.
At the same time, there are many out dated ideas in this book, such as feudalism and superstition, comeuppance and ideas of fatalism, along with some explicit love scenes.
However, the girlfriend gets her comeuppance when the man she cheated on her previous boyfriend with ends up cheating on "her" with another woman.
He says that the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance.
He gets his comeuppance towards the end, his dubious past revealed and is imprisoned.
He also suffers an ironic comeuppance from a dentist he has cuckolded.
He tried it on and he got his comeuppance.
He usually says this as a reaction to getting his comeuppance.
