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Definition of incestuous in English: incestuousadjective ɪnˈsɛstjʊəsˌɪnˈsɛstʃ(u)əs 1Involving or guilty of incest. the child of an incestuous relationship Example sentencesExamples - A sledgehammer leans against the wall behind him; Gillespie's ominous drawing of the incestuous mother and son hangs on the opposite wall.
- The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
- After a major mobilization against rape, it turned its attention to the violence of incestuous familial relations.
- Wotan's lawful wife, Fricka, forbids this - she is outraged by disobedience to proper marriage vows and she demands the death of the incestuous twins.
- How did those incestuous acts and their interpretation function in relationship to other ideas about the family, gender, sexuality, and the social order?
- Cousin marriages between two adults are not, of course, incestuous in this sense.
- Despite all that solicitude for the privacy of would-be spouses, the prohibition on incestuous marriages stands.
- Psychotherapists' opinions, practices, and experiences with recovery of memories of incestuous abuse.
- The title of the film refers to a clause in global law forbidding incestuous sexual relations.
- In several cases of incestuous abuse, the effects of breach of trust were extended to the family unit itself.
- Holding open the prospect of incestuous marriage would devastate family life by, effectively, legitimizing sexual predation within it.
- Stead portrays the relationship between Katherine and Leslie as incestuous.
- Later we have his incestuous seduction by his half-sister Morgan Le Fay, and the love triangle among Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere.
- That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
- He claimed that the marriage was incestuous and illegal, as Catherine had been married to his dead brother, Arthur.
- Rather, it only contains the usual bans on bigamous or incestuous marriage.
- But is it not true that the child conceived as a result of a rape or incestuous relation is also a victim?
- They also involved themselves in incestuous marriages in a like manner of the Pharaohs.
- The question in this appeal is whether there are different policy objectives animating the breach of a parent's fiduciary duty as compared with incestuous sexual assault.
- As the feminists saw it, bringing incestuous rape out of the closet would finally vindicate the truth of women's experience.
2(of human relations) excessively close and resistant to outside influence. the incestuous nature of literary journalism Example sentencesExamples - They are so freakish that no one in their right mind would ever associate with them outside of their little incestuous group, anyway.
- 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.
- The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell.
- I have mentioned the incestuous relationships between car manufacturers the world over, and the Suzuki-Nissan is typical of what is happening.
- Here, the incestuous relationship between high public office and big business is so obvious that it discredits official politics.
- The incestuous relationship between the BBC and the Government is a disgrace.
- The First Minister's downfall has led to the lid being lifted on the incestuous relationships between Labour politicians, activists, private companies and the state.
- Over there, they say, gigantic uncompetitive cartels have an incestuous relationship with government, leading to corruption at all levels.
- And, like all incestuous political organizations, at times the power of the mob falls into the hands of less-than-capable leaders.
- The incestuous relationships between regulators and the industries they are supposed to regulate have been exposed.
- These incestuous relationships between industry and the U.S. government are the norm rather than the exception.
- One detects in their commentary a note of annoyance that the incestuous relations between corporate interests and government have emerged so openly.
- But the brass business is what might be termed incestuous and it isn't rare for one of the ‘majors’ to make brass for another.
- The relationship between major corporations and the government isn't incestuous, because the politicians are pawns, not bedfellows.
- A small tight knit crowd, almost incestuous in its relationships, giving rise to complex situations which seem to skitter out of control.
- Not that the integrity of the independent directors is at issue in the Smurfit case but simply the incestuous nature of the markets which tends to favour the big money.
- The Canberra press gallery has too incestuous a relationship with politicians.
- Given the incestuous nature of politics, most of the top campaign staffers know each other from prior campaigns.
- As an aside, this incestuous relationship between the tour and Sky also led to the reprehensible sale of the Ryder Cup to a satellite channel to which only a small percentage of the country's golfers subscribe.
- Not in a legal sense clearly, but it is difficult not to regard this incestuous relationship between party and state as somehow improper.
Derivatives adverbɪnˈsɛstjʊəsliɪnˈsɛstʃ(u)əsli It said a number of split capital trusts - marketed as a safe way to save for school fees or retirement - had suffered problems after gearing themselves up with bank borrowings and then incestuously investing in each other's funds. Example sentencesExamples - Economics and politics are incestuously fused here in a way that is difficult to imagine for those in the West.
- He first appears after the death of Drusilla, his incestuously beloved sister.
- With this dog, her own son, Echidna incestuously begat the Sphinx.
- The sorcery of his half-sister, the adultery of his wife and best friend, and his incestuously conceived son who becomes his nemesis all play their part in its, and his, doom.
nounɪnˈsɛstjʊəsnəsɪnˈsɛstʃ(u)əsnəs See if the criticism about lack of predictive capabilities or incestuousness still hold up. Example sentencesExamples - In the 1980s the relationship between soap operas and tabloid newspapers reached hitherto unprecedented heights of incestuousness.
- The CPI's executive director wrote, ‘It is a picture of what has long been suspected of the incestuousness between the defense industry and the Pentagon.’
- The web of cross-shareholdings and incestuousness between trust companies and trust directors has raised eyebrows - even in the investment industry.
- The cities are filled with people who have fled an oppressive incestuousness they felt in rural life.
Origin Early 16th century: from late Latin incestuosus, from Latin incestus (see incest). Definition of incestuous in US English: incestuousadjectiveˌinˈsesCH(o͞o)əsˌɪnˈsɛstʃ(u)əs 1Involving or guilty of incest. the child of an incestuous relationship Example sentencesExamples - Wotan's lawful wife, Fricka, forbids this - she is outraged by disobedience to proper marriage vows and she demands the death of the incestuous twins.
- As the feminists saw it, bringing incestuous rape out of the closet would finally vindicate the truth of women's experience.
- In several cases of incestuous abuse, the effects of breach of trust were extended to the family unit itself.
- Rather, it only contains the usual bans on bigamous or incestuous marriage.
- Psychotherapists' opinions, practices, and experiences with recovery of memories of incestuous abuse.
- Holding open the prospect of incestuous marriage would devastate family life by, effectively, legitimizing sexual predation within it.
- Stead portrays the relationship between Katherine and Leslie as incestuous.
- The question in this appeal is whether there are different policy objectives animating the breach of a parent's fiduciary duty as compared with incestuous sexual assault.
- He claimed that the marriage was incestuous and illegal, as Catherine had been married to his dead brother, Arthur.
- A sledgehammer leans against the wall behind him; Gillespie's ominous drawing of the incestuous mother and son hangs on the opposite wall.
- Despite all that solicitude for the privacy of would-be spouses, the prohibition on incestuous marriages stands.
- The title of the film refers to a clause in global law forbidding incestuous sexual relations.
- After a major mobilization against rape, it turned its attention to the violence of incestuous familial relations.
- Later we have his incestuous seduction by his half-sister Morgan Le Fay, and the love triangle among Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere.
- How did those incestuous acts and their interpretation function in relationship to other ideas about the family, gender, sexuality, and the social order?
- Cousin marriages between two adults are not, of course, incestuous in this sense.
- That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
- They also involved themselves in incestuous marriages in a like manner of the Pharaohs.
- But is it not true that the child conceived as a result of a rape or incestuous relation is also a victim?
- The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
2(of human relations generally) excessively close and resistant to outside influence. the incestuous nature of literary journalism Example sentencesExamples - The Canberra press gallery has too incestuous a relationship with politicians.
- These incestuous relationships between industry and the U.S. government are the norm rather than the exception.
- A small tight knit crowd, almost incestuous in its relationships, giving rise to complex situations which seem to skitter out of control.
- The First Minister's downfall has led to the lid being lifted on the incestuous relationships between Labour politicians, activists, private companies and the state.
- Over there, they say, gigantic uncompetitive cartels have an incestuous relationship with government, leading to corruption at all levels.
- One detects in their commentary a note of annoyance that the incestuous relations between corporate interests and government have emerged so openly.
- But the brass business is what might be termed incestuous and it isn't rare for one of the ‘majors’ to make brass for another.
- Here, the incestuous relationship between high public office and big business is so obvious that it discredits official politics.
- The incestuous relationships between regulators and the industries they are supposed to regulate have been exposed.
- The incestuous relationship between the BBC and the Government is a disgrace.
- 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.
- I have mentioned the incestuous relationships between car manufacturers the world over, and the Suzuki-Nissan is typical of what is happening.
- Given the incestuous nature of politics, most of the top campaign staffers know each other from prior campaigns.
- Not in a legal sense clearly, but it is difficult not to regard this incestuous relationship between party and state as somehow improper.
- As an aside, this incestuous relationship between the tour and Sky also led to the reprehensible sale of the Ryder Cup to a satellite channel to which only a small percentage of the country's golfers subscribe.
- And, like all incestuous political organizations, at times the power of the mob falls into the hands of less-than-capable leaders.
- They are so freakish that no one in their right mind would ever associate with them outside of their little incestuous group, anyway.
- Not that the integrity of the independent directors is at issue in the Smurfit case but simply the incestuous nature of the markets which tends to favour the big money.
- The relationship between major corporations and the government isn't incestuous, because the politicians are pawns, not bedfellows.
- The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell.
Origin Early 16th century: from late Latin incestuosus, from Latin incestus (see incest). |