vendetta
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9.5
- noun
- /vɛnˈdɛtə/
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vendetta
- His obsession with revenge turned what began as a simple disagreement into a lifelong vendetta against his former friend.
- a personal vendetta
Like they're just all bent on somehow, you know, a vendetta against him.
- Like they're just all bent on somehow, you know, a vendetta against him.
- Yeah, we went to Iraq, I think partly for the Bush vendetta.
- And he has some personal vendetta against intellectualism, which he calls woke ISM.
- And when you have two sides, both in the throes of these self-serving illusions, you can have endless cycles of vendetta and feuding.
- Vents because of personal vendettas or because it's popular.
- And we can't allow our personal vendettas to get in, in in between raising these children.
- You will be destroyed to settle some angry, bitter internal PR hacks personal vendetta against you.
- And then that creates this whole investigation and vendetta where then the senior leaders come down and they say, you know what?
- And so he he's, he's got this vendetta against Jake and by default of not now that affects me.
Examples
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The critic had been conducting a private vendetta in print.
Fiction book (1993) -
Their zeal has led to charges that their battle has escalated into a personal vendetta.
Academic text (1993) -
None of us are interesting enough to have a personal vendetta against us.
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Is this a personal vendetta now?
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Is all this part of some personal vendetta against Justice Thomas?
Academic text (1996) -
Why have you got a vendetta against Barbara?
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" We don't have any personal vendetta against the French.
Academic text (2003) -
Individuals can afford to pursue private vendettas.
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According to his lawyer, the mayor had been framed by government officials waging a vendetta against powerful blacks.
Fiction book (1994) -
Despite the ruinous economic consequences of Mugabe's personal vendettas, ZANU-PF continues to endorse such invasions.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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8.2
A long violent conflict between families or groups who kill for revenge
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3.9
A long, bitter fight between relatives that lasts for years
How Bitter
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vendetta comes from Italian and originally meant 'revenge', from the Latin vindicta meaning 'vengeance'. That's why a vendetta describes a long, bitter fight or score to settle, often between families or groups.