Word Finder - vendetta

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A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.

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(often preceded by personal) A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.

They had all along maintained a virtual independence of the Turks and until quite recently retained their medieval customs, living in fortified towers and practising the vendetta or blood-feud.

The vendetta, too, is now hardly ever heard of.

The second half of the first season delves into the history of Alaric Saltzman and his vendetta against Damon.

It was almost as if she had a personal vendetta against the machine, but she was a very pleasant lady.

When Shigure discovers Kenshin's true identity and his fight becomes a personal vendetta, the young hero will have no choice.

It's a personal vendetta.

This forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendetta 's.

It was all part of the same global vendetta.

Smith had been tempting fate by conducting a personal vendetta against Alpay.

The amount of public money wasted by the crown prosecution service in pursuing their petty vendetta was not revealed.

And what's with your pathetic vendetta against Wire readers?

In all parts of Albania the vendetta (gydk, jak) or blood-feud, the primitive lex talionis, is an established usage; the duty of revenge is a sacred tradition handed down to successive generations in the family, the village and the tribe.

The sterner strain in the mother's nature may be traced to intermarriage with the families of the wild interior of Corsica, where the vendetta was the unwritten but omnipotent law of the land.

When Shigure discovers Kenshin 's true identity and his fight becomes a personal vendetta, the young hero will have no choice.

The Law Commission has pandered to the destructive agenda of a radical feminist minister who appears to be pursuing a spiteful vendetta against men.

Claims from organizations like the Countryside Alliance that the Government is carrying out a vendetta against the people of the country are ludicrous.

He 's also on a vendetta against the evil powermongers who made him the lonely monster he is.

And what 's with your pathetic vendetta against Wire readers?

With the collapse of communism in 1991 and the subsequent lack of nationwide law and order, the number of vendetta killings has soared.

Now you have road rage and a vendetta against the other driver.

Young actress Natalie Portman went bald during a scene in V for Vendetta.

V for Vendetta is rated R for violence and language.

If you missed V for Vendetta at the theatre, you will definitely want to catch it on DVD.

The undue power of the Jemda is checked by vendetta and a sort of lynch law, and by the formation of parties (sofs), within or without the assembly, for trade, political and other purposes.

This hostility, which amounted to a real vendetta, was based, not so much upon the foreign policy of its victim, his negotiation of the Armistice terms and the decisive influence which he exercised in securing the acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles; as upon his financial policy both as Finance Minister in 1919 and as the Democratic Catholic supporter and, it is said, the political adviser of the Catholic Chancellor of the Reich, Dr. Wirth, in the preparation in the summer of 1921 of a fresh scheme of taxation designed to impose new burdens upon capital and upon the prosperous landed interest.

Portman's other films include V for Vendetta and the critically acclaimed Black Swan.

The conch-shell is the trumpet of alarm and call to arms. The vendetta - resulting, when successful, in the bringing back the head of the slain as a trophy to be set up as a house ornament - is widely practised..

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Their skill in and necessary devotion to the chase influence their whole mode of life; " their moral code is based upon a standard of physical culture and health."3 They live in small groups, every member of which is connected by family ties; between these groups, as in the case of the Yagans and Alakalufs, the vendetta is common.