| Morally suitable outcome |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Jul 2023 |
| Fitting retribution |
Premier Sunday |
07 Aug 2022 |
| What Shakespeare sought in court? (2 words) |
Family Time |
01 May 2022 |
| Janet Jackson movie |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2021 |
| 1993 Janet Jackson movie |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2020 |
| If you?re responsible for the crime, you?ll do the time ? that?s one?s comeuppance |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Nov 2016 |
| Being hoist with one's own petard |
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| Comeuppance for Shakespeare? |
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| Being hoist with one's own petard |
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| Comeuppance |
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| Sometimes ironic reward or punishment |
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| A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980 |
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| Ironic outcome |
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| Ideal distribution of rewards and punishments. |
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| The ending of "Hamlet," for example. |
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