vendettas

noun

plural of vendetta
as in feuds
a series of acts done to harm a disliked person or group He has had a vendetta against her ever since she beat him out for the promotion. The two politicians had long held a personal vendetta against each other.

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Recent Examples of vendettas But as the explosive Season 2 trailer makes clear, the Bellarie name comes with its share of danger, betrayal, and blood-deep vendettas. — Okla Jones, Essence, 21 Aug. 2025 But the explosive anger, vicious vendettas, and festering class resentments expressed so powerfully in season one remain. — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026 There were festering family vendettas; botched forensics; staggering police failings. — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025 While Jameson believes Spider-Man to be a menace, Robertson often takes a more supportive and reasonable view on the superhero’s action, and acts as a foil to Jameson’s vendettas. — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 21 Aug. 2025 All defendants maintained their innocence and appealed after a two-year trial that opened a pandora’s box of unwanted revelations about papal ransom payments to Islamic militants, Vatican vendettas, espionage and other dirty laundry of the Holy See. — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 All defendants maintained their innocence and appealed after a two-year trial that opened a Pandora's box of unwanted revelations about papal ransom payments to Islamic militants, Vatican vendettas, espionage and other dirty laundry of the Holy See. — Nicole Winfield The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vendettas
  1. feuds
  2. disputes
  3. quarrels
  4. fights
Noun
  • That’s reigniting age-old feuds about production quotas that already led the United Arab Emirates, one of OPEC’s most significant members, to leave the group in April.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • From affairs and addiction to behind-the-scenes feuds and Hollywood bombshells, these stars told all for our reading pleasure.
    — EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
Definition of feuds
Noun
  • Herzog won a power struggle in the front office, then quit anyway, amid disputes with ownership.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • According to Castillo, one of the most significant failures has been the tendency to treat many squatter complaints as civil disputes rather than criminal investigations.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of disputes
Noun
  • Rounding out the top five names were seven write-in votes for the Sacramento Capitals or Capitols — which could be nicknamed the Caps to avoid quarrels over the spelling — and six votes for the Sacramento Stingers or Sting, referencing the collegiate Sacramento State Hornets.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
  • In a 2024 study, researchers found that chimpanzee mothers tended to step in to defend their children in quarrels—say, over food or space in a tree—in about half of cases the researchers observed in the wild.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
Definition of quarrels
Noun
  • Advocates viewed Cal/OSHA’S recognition of the detainees as workers as a victory that could pave the way for future labor rights fights at other detention centers in the state.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • Losing title fights to Charles Oliveira (symbolic BMF belt), Ilia Topuria (featherweight), and Alex Volkanovski (featherweight).
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of fights

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