"come-uppance" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Will Hutton, Them And Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A generation-long sequence of mistakes, omissions and delusion was about to receive its come-uppance.",
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          "ref": "2014, Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic, →ISBN:",
          "text": "More people would pay, wrote Deputy Minister Pokrovskii, less to satisfy the need for revenue and more as come-uppance for the past shirking that was now unacceptable.",
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          "ref": "2015, Christopher Tookey, Tookey's Turkeys: The Most Annoying 144 Films From the Last 25 Years, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Catwoman had been threatened since 1992, when Michelle Pfeiffer purred her way into our hearts as Batman's feline come-uppance in Batman Returns.",
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          "ref": "2015, Alistair Cooke, Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He preserves a deep yearning to see sinners get their come-uppance here on earth.",
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        "Alternative form of comeuppance"
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  "word": "come-uppance"
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          "ref": "2010, Will Hutton, Them And Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society, →ISBN:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic, →ISBN:",
          "text": "More people would pay, wrote Deputy Minister Pokrovskii, less to satisfy the need for revenue and more as come-uppance for the past shirking that was now unacceptable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2015, Christopher Tookey, Tookey's Turkeys: The Most Annoying 144 Films From the Last 25 Years, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Catwoman had been threatened since 1992, when Michelle Pfeiffer purred her way into our hearts as Batman's feline come-uppance in Batman Returns.",
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          "ref": "2015, Alistair Cooke, Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He preserves a deep yearning to see sinners get their come-uppance here on earth.",
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