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

So, in some ways, giving Black people the land where the prison once operated as reparations could be seen as poetic justice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

It's poetic justice that they get to be first in line to start holding him accountable.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2023

There seems a sort of poetic justice in the later experiences of the principal men in the affair.

From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various