How to Use incestuous in a Sentence

incestuous

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• There were rumors that the father and daughter had had an incestuous relationship.
• The creepy, incestuous dance number that cost John the Baptist his head is told frank as frank can be.
  — Caryn Rivadeneira, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2017
• The show absolves our incestuous hero couple of this sin.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• And now our watch has ended: After eight seasons, countless deaths, and a few incestuous plot twists, Game of Thrones has come to a close.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 May 2019
• Hell, the first episode provided a warm, incestuous welcome brought to you by Cersei and Jaime.
  — Nicole Silverberg, GQ, 13 July 2017
• That’s the problem with working in a county that’s so incestuous and inbred.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 May 2023
• Théo is past the age of consent, but the relationship is incestuous, legally speaking, thanks to a change in the French penal code in 2021.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
• The rest of the book does not provide evidence of incestuous abuse, so readers are left to wonder, disturbed.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Show business is a small, incestuous and, in some cases, cruel club.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
• One of Western’s friends tries to cast this incestuous relationship in terms of a Greek tragedy, but McCarthy suggests it’s a geek tragedy.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• The two are playing the same tune but in different keys: Lister-Jones draws out the character’s incestuous overtones, while LuPone hits heavy notes of shame.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The episode unfolds like an incestuous bildungsroman (a coming-of-age saga).
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
• Investigators said in 2009 that the incestuous killer burned his son's body in a furnace.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2022
• Along the way, the reader gets a lesson in the intricate and incestuous marriages of not just the Russian royal family but all the houses of Europe.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• This deep state is one huge, giant incestuous, corrupt swamp.
  — Fox News, 17 May 2018
• Baker finds a perfect narrative foil to Auden amid the incestuous ranks of the British upper-middle class.
  — Maya Jasanoff, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
• This film follows two incestuous werecats who feed off the life energy of virgin girls.
  — cleveland.com, 5 Aug. 2017
• Part of it, surely, is that literature is an incestuous world where the same authors who write the books are the first port of call when publishers want blurbs for everyone else's.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2011
• After a surprisingly incestuous game of Rollin’ Roulette at a party (that's a drug-passing game involving tongues), the sisters dance and roller-skate through the dark.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 13 Aug. 2018
• Their passionate and incestuous union produces the hero Siegfried.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Rhaenyra and Daemon seemed like the perfect—albeit incestuous—couple over the last several episodes.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Don’t worry — despite the unfortunate title, this is not some sort of bizarre show about incestuous love.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 Aug. 2022
• The Cardinals need to bring in outside experiences to shake up a culture that, at this point, borders on incestuous.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Targaryens had a long tradition of incestuous marriages dating back to their time in Old Valyria.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• Or is the destruction of the patriarchy another lie the witches tell Anna to try to join her in their incestuous eugenicist cause?
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2024
• The incestuous relationship between the federal government and the central bank shows up on the asset side of the balance sheet, too.
  — Steve H. Hanke and John Greenwood, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
• The Targaryens are also, of course, an incestuous family, which helps to explain why the names of just about every platinum-haired character sound alike.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 June 2024
• His last years were relatively quiet save for one last twist in the branches of his incestuous family tree.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• The cast’s dynamics weren’t formed in the mind of a producer but, rather, over years of incestuous, pre-notoriety canoodling at SUR, a restaurant that felt almost like a college campus, albeit one without books.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
• Some of the controversy seems to be people thinking for example, that the brothers are having an incestuous relationship.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024