retributive justice
Example Sentences
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So an air of retributive justice hangs over this thing like a cloud.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
And speaking of retributive justice, I can’t not talk about the one crossover cameo that actually surprised me.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
This kind of justice is called retributive justice, and it’s contrary to Winn’s entire approach.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2020
It insulates him against the suggestion that he is in some way militant or divisive and makes the focus of his campaign not retributive justice but rather harmony, racial and otherwise.
From Fox News • Feb. 1, 2019
The foolish, the careless, and the truculent, can no longer avowedly declare the cries and groans of the miserable multitude to be seditious discontent; nor ascribe their sufferings to the results of retributive justice.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George
