poetic justice
Noun
Meaning
poetic justice (uncountable)
The rewarding of virtue, and the punishment of vice, especially in an ironic manner.
Synonym: just deserts
Synonyms
Examples
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
The problems of this country are not going to be solved by one actor or even 10 actors. The problems are far too big. On the screen we get poetic justice in three hours. Poetic justice doesn't come in a lifetime.
In a case of poetic justice, at least,a Black woman judge was assigned to preside over Payne’s trial.
Dante himself is led through of hell, where he sees unrepentant sinners punished by poetic justice: fortune tellers have their heads on backwards, unable to see what lies ahead; corrupt politicians with “sticky fingers” are submerged in boiling tar.
I would say this is poetic justice.
What’s more, a measure of poetic justice lurks at the end of Kempka’s account: the story of how Hitler’s limousines, the consummate symbols of his wealth and power, would also be present for his demise.