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Significados de poetic justice en inglés

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

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        Examples for "just deserts"
        Examples for "just deserts"
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        They kept going right to the end and got their just deserts.
        The Guardian
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        Consider not our just deserts, but open wide Thy door of grace.
        Bahíyyih Khánum
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        Nevertheless, as with capital punishment, justice involves more than just deserts... View Article
        The new yorker
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        Sometimes I feel that the common sandwich does not get its just deserts.
        The Irish Times
        5
        She said that someday Mr. Cruickshank would get his just deserts.
        The day the falls stood still
        Uso de poetic justice en inglés
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        But it does have a certain element of poetic justice, doesn't it?
        A touch of death
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        After all, there is a deal of poetic justice in the world.
        Dawn
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        There is in their arrangement no attempt at symmetry, nor poetic justice.
        Confessions and Criticisms
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        It's perfect, poetic justice served, a brilliant finale to a brilliant show.
        The Guardian
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        Did you ever hear o' sic a thing as poetic justice, Sergeant?
        Greyfriars Bobby
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        She had the strength, and leaving the swan behind- aformof poetic justice?
        Priest
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        I'd never been a great one for poetic justice, but this came close.
        NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
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        That would be poetic justice, and justice is so rare in the world.
        Jess
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        And there was some sort of poetic justice about telling her the truth.
        Faerie Wars
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        And it made them worse too-which is what the book calls poetic justice.
        The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
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        Somehow the latter seemed fitting, poetic justice for Kealoha and Faalogo.
        Spider bones: a novel
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        It seemed poetic justice that such a bastion of privilege should stake her.
        Report for Murder
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        A poetic justice visits him with misery, for he still cares for Alice.
        The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
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        It would, therefore, be a measure of poetic justice if now--
        King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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        As a Morphate protecting his rights to his mate, it was poetic justice.
        Nocturnal
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        Only a kind of ambiguous poetic justice appears to be visited on those responsible.
        The Guardian
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