vendetta
Example Sentences
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"No member of parliament with me will use this institution for a personal vendetta", Sonko said, speaking in Wolof.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
One of the officers involved told those investigating the complaint that Tewson, 32, had developed a "personal vendetta" against them.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
“Do we have to start a vendetta against Rita Skeeter as well?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing vendetta
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