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

During a fringe event at Labour's party conference this week, Rachel Reeves reportedly joked the government had a vendetta against the peer.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

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

I don’t think he, like has a personal vendetta, for Puerto Rico.”

From Salon • Mar. 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