incestuous
pronunciation
How to pronounce incestuous in British English:
UK [ɪnˈsestjuəs]
How to pronounce incestuous in American English:
US [ɪnˈsestʃuəs]
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- Adjective:
- resembling incest as by excessive intimacy
- relating to or involving incest
Word Origin
- incestuous (adj.)
- 1530s, from Latin incestuosus "incestuous," from incestus "unchaste" (see incest). Figurative use is from 1744. Related: Incestuously; incestuousness.
Example
- 1. More recently , the terms of engagement have been at once incestuous and suffused with hostility .
- 2. Anyone wanting companies run by a self-serving , self-recruiting cabal could hardly improve on this incestuous system .
- 3. Hopeless salome uses the incestuous affection herod holds towards her , and successes in getting the head of john .
- 4. Lu ta cursed him , saying , you incestuous beast , do you still dare to answer me ?
- 5. The nuclear industry is deeply incestuous .