Definitions for vendetta

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vendetta ven·det·ta

Spelling: [ven-det-uh]

IPA: /vɛnˈdɛt ə/

Vendetta is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in vendetta (adeenttv).

Definitions for vendetta

noun

1. 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.
2. any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like:

Origin of vendetta

1850-55; Italian Latin vindicta vengeance; see vindictive

Examples for vendetta

Revenge, Avenger, Retribution, vendetta; none appealed to him.

He was hers by marriage, and in marrying her had wedded the vendetta.

And is that impossible person, Mr. Marcus Stepney, also in the vendetta?

“A vendetta for that would have happened three years ago, not now,” Albiera Antinori told The Daily Beast.

Has she ever shaved her head for a role a la Natalie Portman in V is for vendetta or Demi Moore in G.I. Jane?

If ever I were in any vendetta business I should pick Gaspard first.

He did not proclaim the vendetta against the assassin of his father.

The queen has a vendetta against the patriarchal royalty system—or how kings replace queens with younger and younger women.

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

We are talking about a man who has committed horrible crimes…It is a vendetta against all LAPD and law enforcement.