Comeuppance and Fall

Comeuppance

Comeuppance noun - Suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense.

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Fall and comeuppance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fall" instead a noun "Comeuppance".

Fall noun - The act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.

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Comeuppance and fall are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comeuppance" instead a noun "Fall".

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

long	long comeuppance	long fall
true	true comeuppance	true fall
entire	entire comeuppance	entire fall
unfortunate	unfortunate comeuppance	unfortunate fall
Other adjectives: little, terrible, dramatic, humiliating, final, minor, deadly, later, inevitable, impending, last, eventual.

Hercules Grytpype-Thynne in The Goon Show would generally never sustain any comeuppance for using Neddie as a fall guy in his schemes.

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All three films utterly failed to deglamorize their heroes, even in their fall, in part because all three showed them getting their comeuppance in shootouts where they faced off alone against more and better armed opponents.

Source: Do Not Do This Cool Thing

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