Meaning of vendetta in English
(Definition of vendetta from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of vendetta from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of vendetta
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To connect them with some vendetta against linguistic and logical structure seems philosophically otiose.
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Men (and to some extent women) prospered through plots and vendettas.
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Steps such as ostracism, boycotts, loss of employment, and public denunciation could be used against those who broke the law, as could a variety of self-help measures, such as vendettas.
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Anyone with sufficient money and influence can make use of state institutions to harm his opponents, whether in land or business disputes or in personal vendettas.
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Her thorough grounding in the literature of cultural anthropology, particularly the scholarship on honour, shame and vendetta helps to set the notional stage of factionalism and civil strife.
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That is backed up by another vendetta—the ministerial vendetta.
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They have also mounted a sustained vendetta against local government, destroying the essential foundation for secure and positive local communities.
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It is a vendetta, with stinging penalties for any local authority that does not bow the knee to his personal diktat.
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It is important that we put aside recriminations and past vendettas.
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In the continuance of petrol rationing we see only another vendetta against the private motorist.
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Is not that the reason for this vendetta?
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There appears to be an extraordinary vendetta against the single-premium policy friendly societies.
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Of course, that fact might explain why there is a vendetta.
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They said that it was a vendetta against the county grammar schools.
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Unfortunately, we have come full circle and there has been no easing of the vendetta.
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