If one person has a vendetta against another, the first person wants revenge for something the second person did to them in the past. The vice president said the cartoonist has a personal vendetta against him
The blood-feud, or duty of the nearest kin of a murdered man to kill the murderer It prevails in Corsica, and exists in Sicily, Sardinia, and Calabria It is preserved among the Druses, Circassians, Arabs, etc (Latin, vindicta )