Crossword-Solution: COMEUPPANCE
We have 8 clues for the answer “COMEUPPANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deserved rebuke: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| Deserved rebuke: Slang. | 1 answer |
| Fate that someone deserves | 1 answer |
| Just deserts | 5 answers |
| Deserts | 15 answers |
| deserving | 28 answers |
| Due | 50 answers |
| Right | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMEUPPANCE (4)
Gideon Ward's sister--after the irascible Colonel had driven every other suitor away from that patient lady--and then gave the Colonel his "everlasting comeuppance," and settled down in Smyrna as boss of the Ward household, that event nearly wore Gossip's tongue into ribbons.
Funny how the proponents of the stratified society always have their comeuppance by the need of women whose minds are bent on mundane things like homes and families.
Some were gleeful that science had finally got its comeuppance, and felt no more than a pleasure that the bigdomes had proved they weren't any smarter than anybody else.
Truly, Thurley Precore must get her “comeuppance.” Ali Baba summarized it one late summer’s day as he watched Caleb, Polly and Thurley play tennis against Collin, returned from Bliss’s hermitage, Mark and Lissa.
Quotes with COMEUPPANCE (3)
The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible.
I had to be strong, for every man and woman in our fair community was here to witness my beloved being put to rest, some with satisfaction, and some with relief. But all would gather an accounting of the events here today, to be relayed at future balls and parlour teas, as a comeuppance for my marrying an outsider.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1956–2015).