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Posted: **Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:58 pm**

informal.
deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior.

Posted: **Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:40 pm**

Deserved reward is rather neutral to me. Just deserts is most definitely along the lines of pay-back time.

Here's the Dr.'s treatment of comeuppance:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3012