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vendetta

/ven-det-uh/US // vɛnˈdɛt ə //UK // (vɛnˈdɛtə) //

仇杀,宿仇,宿敌,宿命

Related Words

grudge怨恨,怨气,恩怨,怨念squabble争吵,拌嘴,争吵声,怄气hostility敌对性,敌视,敌意,戾气revenge复仇,报,报复,报仇rivalry竞争,竞争对手,争斗,争吵quarrel吵吵闹闹,争吵,吵吵闹闹的,吵架bickering争吵,吵吵闹闹,争吵声,争吵不休discord不和,不和谐,不和睦,不协调dispute纠纷,争端,争议,争执disagreement分歧,歧见,意见分歧,嫌隙argument争论,争吵,争执,论点fight斗争,争取,战斗,争斗dissension矛盾,争端,意见分歧,纠纷fracas骚乱,骚动,狂欢,混乱strife纷争,争斗,争吵,争执conflict冲突,矛盾,冲突问题,矛盾冲突row行,行数,行行,行行行bad blood坏血,坏血统,恶血,恶毒的血液falling out脱落,掉队,跌倒了,跌落

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like: a political vendetta.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfeud
Synonyms
bickering争吵,吵吵闹闹,争吵声,争吵不休grudge怨恨,怨气,恩怨,怨念hostility敌对性,敌视,敌意,戾气quarrel吵吵闹闹,争吵,吵吵闹闹的,吵架revenge复仇,报,报复,报仇rivalry竞争,竞争对手,争斗,争吵squabble争吵,拌嘴,争吵声,怄气argument争论,争吵,争执,论点conflict冲突,矛盾,冲突问题,矛盾冲突disagreement分歧,歧见,意见分歧,嫌隙discord不和,不和谐,不和睦,不协调dispute纠纷,争端,争议,争执dissension矛盾,争端,意见分歧,纠纷fight斗争,争取,战斗,争斗fracas骚乱,骚动,狂欢,混乱row行,行数,行行,行行行strife纷争,争斗,争吵,争执bad blood坏血,坏血统,恶血,恶毒的血液family feud家仇国恨,世仇,家仇,家庭矛盾

Examples

  • Rodgers has a famously mercurial personality, and personal vendettas seem to motivate him.

  • An executive pursuing a petty vendetta against a lower-ranking professional in someone else’s department says more about him than about you.

  • Not only do we have our own personal judgment and vendetta against ourselves, but we also have to read and hear these voices online all the time.

  • He had escaped impeachment in early 2020 even though the evidence was overwhelming that he’d corruptly tried to hijack American foreign policy to pursue personal political vendettas.

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

  • Could a mind-boggling vendetta be behind the ricin letters sent to Obama and Wicker?

  • She became the victim of an unprecedented national vendetta jointly spearheaded by the press and her political opponents.

  • She depicts the conflict between Roosevelt and Lindbergh to influence public opinion as a venomous vendetta.

  • This referendum is no different and is literally the result of a personal vendetta.

  • Some account of the vendetta should not be omitted and illustrations from Prosper Mérimée's "Colomba" may be read aloud.

  • It is a vendetta which has been handed down from the remotest antiquity, and is as bitter now as in any past generation.

  • Pietro Andrei was in the way, and a little subtle revival of a forgotten vendetta secured his removal.

  • The people were getting more civilized and the vendetta was dying out.

  • The companion picture, called La Vendetta, portrayed a widely different scene and circumstance.

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