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POETIC JUSTICE

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• POETIC JUSTICE (noun)
The noun POETIC JUSTICE has 1 sense:

1. an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

Familiarity information: POETIC JUSTICE used as a noun is very rare.

• POETIC JUSTICE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

just deserts; poetic justice

Hypernyms ("poetic justice" is a kind of...):

final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination (something that results)

"Don't make a mountain out of a molehill."
(English proverb)
"When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard."
(Native American proverb, Lakota)
"An idiot threw a stone in the well, fourty wise people couldn't get it out."
(Armenian proverb)
"You're correct, but the goat is mine."
(Corsican proverb)

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