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retributive justice
noun as in poetic justice
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Example Sentences
I felt that Alla would sooner or later urge me on to be the humble means of a retributive justice overtaking him.
A general shout proclaimed the acquiescence of the other seamen in this act of retributive justice.
Here are no expressions of malice, no invocations even of God's retributive justice, not a complaint of suffering wrongfully!
Is there no retributive justice dogging his heels, from which all the glories and adulations of earth cannot shield him?
The people, shocked at the removal of the Druidical works, predicted retributive justice to those who disturbed the sacred relics.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to retributive justice, such as: just punishment, nemesis, punitive action, retribution, virtue rewarded, and warrantability.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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