Idiom
rough justice
Meaning
Treatment or punishment that is not considered fair or in accordance with the law.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The referee's bad call felt like rough justice.”
“The company fired him without a proper hearing, which felt like rough justice to everyone in the office.”
“The villagers took matters into their own hands, delivering a form of rough justice that bypassed the local courts entirely.”
Examples
simple
“The referee's bad call felt like rough justice.”
contextual
“The company fired him without a proper hearing, which felt like rough justice to everyone in the office.”
complex
“The villagers took matters into their own hands, delivering a form of rough justice that bypassed the local courts entirely.”
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