vendetta
Example Sentences
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Some of his extracurricular fixations—personal vendettas, online foolery—could get less attention.
It will be more orderly and less chaotic, less driven by impulse and vendetta, more discriminating between allies and adversaries.
Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.
One of the officers involved told those investigating the complaint that Tewson, 32, had developed a "personal vendetta" against them.
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The list is long, according to police, and vendettas go back a long way in Corsica.
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