incestuous
/ɪnˈsɛstjʊəs
/adjective
1Involving or guilty of incest: the child of an incestuous relationship...
- Rather, it only contains the usual bans on bigamous or incestuous marriage.
- 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.
- Cousin marriages between two adults are not, of course, incestuous in this sense.
2(Of human relations) excessively close and resistant to outside influence: the incestuous nature of literary journalism...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Derivatives
incestuously
/ adverb ...- 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.
- Economics and politics are incestuously fused here in a way that is difficult to imagine for those in the West.
- 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.
incestuousness
/ noun ...- The web of cross-shareholdings and incestuousness between trust companies and trust directors has raised eyebrows - even in the investment industry.
- In the 1980s the relationship between soap operas and tabloid newspapers reached hitherto unprecedented heights of incestuousness.
- See if the criticism about lack of predictive capabilities or incestuousness still hold up.
Origin
Early 16th century: from late Latin incestuosus, from Latin incestus (see incest).