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English Dictionarypoˌetic ˈjustice noun [uncountable] a situation in which someone suffers, and you think they deserve it because they did something bad:
After the way she treated Sam, it’s only poetic justice that Dave left her. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Idiomspoetic justiceif something that happens is poetic justice, someone who has done something bad is made to suffer in a way that seems fair. There is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the country responsible for the worst ecological disaster this century is the one suffering most from its effects. [TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲
poetic justicethe appropriate but chance reward or punishment by someone who deserves it
It was poetic justice when the supervisor who was harassing the workers lost his job because the president did not want him to work for the company anymore.
It was poetic justice when the man lost most of the money that he had got illegally.
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