vendetta

Converse of object

• pursue: I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.
• wage: In fact: Labor has abolished the assisted places scheme and waged a vendetta against Britain's grammar schools.
• have: To put the record straight: Financial Mail has no vendetta against Lloyds TSB.
• conduct: Smith had been tempting fate by conducting a personal vendetta against Alpay.
• continue: James continued the vendettas himself, destroying the power of the once mighty Black Douglases.
• become: When Shigure discovers Kenshin's true identity and his fight becomes a personal vendetta, the young hero will have no choice.

Preposition: against

• man: The Law Commission has pandered to the destructive agenda of a radical feminist minister who appears to be pursuing a spiteful vendetta against men.
• people: Claims from organizations like the Countryside Alliance that the Government is carrying out a vendetta against the people of the country are ludicrous.
• powermongers: He's also on a vendetta against the evil powermongers who made him the lonely monster he is.

Adjective modifier

• personal: It was almost as if she had a personal vendetta against the machine, but she was a very pleasant lady.
• private: This forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendetta 's.
• petty: The amount of public money wasted by the crown prosecution service in pursuing their petty vendetta was not revealed.
• global: It was all part of the same global vendetta.
• old: Old vendettas never die and with the first democratic elections imminent, there are some very dangerous people in town.
• pathetic: And what's with your pathetic vendetta against Wire readers?

Modifies a noun

• killing: With the collapse of communism in 1991 and the subsequent lack of nationwide law and order, the number of vendetta killings has soared.

Noun used with modifier

• family: Here family vendettas were rife and houses were built with ever higher fortifications.