a situation in which someone has angry and negative feelings towards someone else and keeps trying to harm them or to cause problems for them
vendetta against:
The right-wingpress was waging a vendetta against the mayor.
Synonyms and related words
Arguments
argument
disagreement
conflict
2
a situation in which one group or family tries to kill or harm another because of harm that the other group did to them previously, especially when this continues for a long time
The killingappeared to be part of a gangland vendetta.
Synonyms and related words
Revenge
revenge
vengeance
retribution
vendetta
noun countable
US /venˈdetə/
Word Forms
singular
vendetta
plural
vendettas
DEFINITIONS2
1
a situation in which someone has angry and negative feelings toward someone else and keeps trying to harm them or to cause problems for them
vendetta against:
The right-wingpress was waging a vendetta against the mayor.
Synonyms and related words
Arguments
argument
disagreement
conflict
2
a situation in which one group or family tries to kill or harm another because of harm that the other group did to them previously, especially when this continues for a long time
The killingappeared to be part of a gangland vendetta.