0 a long and violent argument between people or families, in which one group tries to harm the other in order to punish them for things that happened in the past:
1 a strong desire to harm a person or group, often because of political reasons or feelings of hate:
To connect them with some vendetta against linguistic and logical structure seems philosophically otiose.
Men (and to some extent women) prospered through plots and vendettas.
Steps such as ostracism, boycotts, loss of employment, and public denunciation could be used against those who broke the law, as could a variety of self-help measures, such as vendettas.
Anyone with sufficient money and influence can make use of state institutions to harm his opponents, whether in land or business disputes or in personal vendettas.
Her thorough grounding in the literature of cultural anthropology, particularly the scholarship on honour, shame and vendetta helps to set the notional stage of factionalism and civil strife.
That is backed up by another vendetta—the ministerial vendetta.
They have also mounted a sustained vendetta against local government, destroying the essential foundation for secure and positive local communities.
It is a vendetta, with stinging penalties for any local authority that does not bow the knee to his personal diktat.
