When life hands someone their Karma in an elegant way, with witnesses and without any encouragement from victims or victors. It's the balancing of the scales of Justice in a way that would make a good story for others to learn from.
Honey, after all she did to you, it is poetic justice when karma is served.
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Poetic Justice is when a bunch of Hedge Fund Managers who frequently manipulate the market, get short squeezed out of a lot of money by a bunch of Robin Hood traders from r/wallstreetbets
These diamond hands ๐ from reddit really served those wallstreet money bags some poetic justice.
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The fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions.
Trae Young injured his ankle on a refs leg?! Man, poetic justice!
After months of knowingly downplaying COVID-19 and misleading the public as well as engaging in conspiracy theories in relation to the virus and continually mocking individuals, corporations and institutions that were trying to take the situation seriously, Donald Trump contracted said virus.
I always said that one of the greatest cases of poetic justice would be if Donald Trump ended up catching COVID after intentionally creating problems and making wildly inaccurate statements in regards to the virus.
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Using literature (poems/ stories/ song....) to annoy/ inform your nemesis of their wrongdoings towards you or others.
'Oh my Gosh! She's crossed a line.'
'She needs some poetic justice!'
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Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.
Poetic justice is referred to in "The Simpsons" episode "Boy Scoutz N the Hood." When Bart returns home from a Junior Campers meeting Homer asks "How was jerk practice boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees and build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs?" The chair that Homer is sitting on then breaks and he declares "D'oh! Stupid poetic justice."
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A phrase used to describe something that relates to one's actions or thoughts
Lucky by Jason Mraz is such poetic justice
What you just said is poetic justice! You're living my life!
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