poetic justice
Example Sentences
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If Mazda’s customers rebel, it will amount to poetic justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
It would have been poetic justice if he had won on Sunday, not just playing in a home World Cup but also leading his side - that wasn't meant to be.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
I must admit, I’m amused by the poetic justice of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
It's poetic justice that they get to be first in line to start holding him accountable.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2023
By a kind of poetic justice the utter failure of art to satisfy the demand for reform, for purity, for religion, was proved during the pontificates of the two Medici, Leo X and Clement VII.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
