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单词 poetic justice
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poetic justicepoˌetic ˈjustice noun [uncountable] Examples
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  • 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.
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