retributive justice
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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
There are flourishing empires now which perhaps a keen politician, and certainly a firm believer in retributive justice governing the world, must consider to be doomed.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
