释义 |
poetic justicepoˌetic ˈjustice noun [uncountable] - And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?
- If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice.
- In the real world, poetic justice is not so easily achieved.
- Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.
- Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.
- Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.
a situation in which someone suffers, and you think they deserve it because they did something bad: After the way she treated Sam, it’s only poetic justice that Dave left her. |