vendetta
Example Sentences
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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
But making the main hero of "The Last of Us" the target of righteous vendetta invites viewers to reckon with the concept of justice long prescribed in Westerns.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 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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