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vendetta

[ ven-det-uh ]

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noun

a private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek to avenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer's relatives, especially such vengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy.
any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like:
a political vendetta.

vendetta

/ vɛnˈdɛtə /

a private feud, originally between Corsican or Sicilian families, in which the relatives of a murdered person seek vengeance by killing the murderer or some member of his family
any prolonged feud, quarrel, etc

First recorded in 1850–55; from Italian, from Latin vindicta “vengeance”; vindictive

C19: from Italian, from Latin vindicta, from vindicāre to avenge; see vindicate

Without a critical mass of media, the politicians can get away with claiming the Atlanta paper has a vendetta against them.

Could a mind-boggling vendetta be behind the ricin letters sent to Obama and Wicker?

She became the victim of an unprecedented national vendetta jointly spearheaded by the press and her political opponents.

She depicts the conflict between Roosevelt and Lindbergh to influence public opinion as a venomous vendetta.

This referendum is no different and is literally the result of a personal vendetta.

Some account of the vendetta should not be omitted and illustrations from Prosper Mérimée's "Colomba" may be read aloud.

It is a vendetta which has been handed down from the remotest antiquity, and is as bitter now as in any past generation.

Pietro Andrei was in the way, and a little subtle revival of a forgotten vendetta secured his removal.

The people were getting more civilized and the vendetta was dying out.

The companion picture, called La Vendetta, portrayed a widely different scene and circumstance.

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