Definition of "vendetta" []

• A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying and is perpetuated by retaliatory acts of revenge; a blood feud. (noun)
• A bitter, destructive feud. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The vendetta is still the custom in Sardinia, and a person is respected if he takes blood revenge on the killer of a kinsman."
• "“The only thing I’d like to respond to is your choice of the word vendetta.”"
• "As a DEM you don't carry a big stick nor believe in vendetta."