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US
/ˌɪnˈsɛstʃwəs/
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[ UK /ɪnsˈɛstʃuːəs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈɛstʃuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- resembling incest as by excessive intimacy
- relating to or involving incest
How To Use incestuous In A Sentence
- One of the signal developments of the past few years is the near-incestuous absorption of media firms by one another.
- In the ballet's most chilling sequence we see her manoeuvred into GM's embrace with incestuous lubriciousness by her brother. Manon – review
- Yet the paper of record is chasing an editor who edits a magazine that is, by its very nature, in an incestuous relationship with the movie business while the other story lays there.
- ratings of continue to plunge, possibly because God is punishing the smug moderator of for his 2007 prancing around on stage at one of those incestuous Washington correspondents dinners while Karl Rove "rapped," a performance widely believed to be the nadir of Caucasian entertainment TIME.com: Top Stories
- Of these, the most striking is Matthew G. Lewis, whose novel The Monk cast aside Radcliffe's decorum in its sensational depictions of diabolism and incestuous rape.
- The incestuous relationships between regulators and the industries they are supposed to regulate have been exposed.
- Same-sex relationships equal incestuous and pedophiliac abuses. Leah McElrath Renna: Rick Warren, Obama? Really?!?!
- incestuously conceived
- The title of the film refers to a clause in global law forbidding incestuous sexual relations.
- However, "Die Walküre" is an opera about love—the incestuous passion of the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde; Wotan's doomed love for his son, Siegmund; the deep father-daughter love of Wotan and Brünnhilde; and the frayed marital bond of Wotan and Fricka—all of which ultimately lead to the downfall of the gods. Where Intimacy Walked the Plank