Usually means: Imprecise, often harsh legal outcome.
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  1. rough justice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rough justice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rough justice: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Rough Justice (Bananarama song), Rough Justice (British TV programme), Rough Justice (Porridge), Rough Justice (Rolling Stones song), Rough Justice (The Rolling Stones song), Rough Justice (film), Rough Justice (novel), Rough justice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. rough justice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. rough justice: Wiktionary

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  1. rough justice: Idioms

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  1. Rough Justice, rough-justice: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Treatment or punishment that is not considered fair or in accordance with the law.

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punishment, roughness, punishing, rough trade, punition, brutalizing, harshness, poetic justice, punitive, revengeful, more...

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punishment, roughness, punishing, rough trade, punition, brutalizing, harshness, poetic justice, punitive, revengeful, more...



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