Word Finder - incestuous

definition

Pertaining to or engaging in incest.

example

If you engaged in an incestuous relationship with a family member, that would make you an inbreeder.

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Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders.

It feels incestuous to me.

Theocritus celebrates the incestuous marriage of Ptolemy Philadelphus with his sister Arsinoe.

The somewhat incestuous pursuit of historiography was novel to most of us - and therefore salutary.

With a shortage of models, photography students take turns to pose as each others' models in a rather incestuous exchange.

Frankly, that sort of life is almost incestuous, too close for comfort.

The links between Manchester fandom and Edinburgh fandom are so incestuous as to be beyond simple rationalization.

He alleged that he was beginning to have a horrible misgiving that his marriage with Catherine had been invalid, perhaps downright " incestuous.

The biggest family secret Phillips shared with the world, not only on Oprah but also in her book, is that she claims that she and her father had an incestuous relationship for 10 years.

Representing the love she has for her brother James Haven (despite rumors of an incestuous relationship), there is the letter H on the inside of her left wrist.

It was suggested that the motive of the murder was the brothers' rivalry in the affection of Donna Sancha, wife of Giuffre, the pope's youngest son, while there were yet darker hints at incestuous relations of Cesare and the duke with their sister Lucrezia.

Some of its enactments are purely pagan - thus one paragraph allows the mother to kill her new-born child, and another prescribes the immolation to the gods of the defiler of their temple; others are purely Christian, such as those which prohibit incestuous marriages and working on Sunday.

In this chronique the gods, like other gods, are adventurous warriors, adulterers, incestuous, homicidal, given to animal transformations, cowardly, and in fact charged with all human vices, and credited with magical powers.

The art world can be a very incestuous place to be.

But it is not unlikely that this story was invented to supersede the account of the incestuous union of Conchobar with his sister, which seems to be hinted at on various occasions.

The marriage of cousins of the first degree is declared incestuous and void.

Cinna's chief work was a mythological epic poem called Smyrna, the subject of which was the incestuous love of Smyrna (or Myrrha) for her father Cinyras, treated after the manner of the Alexandrian poets.