vendetta

Definition

  • noun: a very long and violent fight between two families or groups
  • noun: an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts
  • synonyms: blood feud

Examples

  • She claims that the police have a 'vendetta' against her. [=that the police are deliberately and unfairly trying to cause trouble for her]

  • He waged a personal 'vendetta' against his rivals in the Senate.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and virulent vermin vanguarding vice... ...and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta... ...held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such... ...shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. (..)
    2005 V for Vendetta