How to Use incestuous in a Sentence

incestuous

adjective
  • There were rumors that the father and daughter had had an incestuous relationship.
  • The whole thing is just such an incestuous funny story.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This deep state is one huge, giant incestuous, corrupt swamp.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • There is even, perhaps, a hint of incestuous desire.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • So why do these incestuous love triangles seem so escapable right now?
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Show business is a small, incestuous and, in some cases, cruel club.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
  • 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
  • That’s the problem with working in a county that’s so incestuous and inbred.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 May 2023
  • This film follows two incestuous werecats who feed off the life energy of virgin girls.
    — cleveland.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • The episode unfolds like an incestuous bildungsroman (a coming-of-age saga).
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the book does not provide evidence of incestuous abuse, so readers are left to wonder, disturbed.
    — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The romance of the show isn’t solely in the (mildly incestuous) love triangle, though.
    — Sarah John, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The song highlights West’s claim of having an incestuous relationship with his male cousin as a kid.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Don’t worry — despite the unfortunate title, this is not some sort of bizarre show about incestuous love.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Their passionate and incestuous union produces the hero Siegfried.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Hell, the first episode provided a warm, incestuous welcome brought to you by Cersei and Jaime.
    — Nicole Silverberg, GQ, 13 July 2017
  • Reactions to the incestuous moment have taken over social media and filming the scene was awkward for those involved as well.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Rhaenyra and Daemon seemed like the perfect—albeit incestuous—couple over the last several episodes.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The fast-food industry is known for incestuous copying and Arby's is now seeing other chains take aim at their equity.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Investigators said in 2009 that the incestuous killer burned his son's body in a furnace.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 22 Apr. 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 allegations shouldn't be a shock to anyone who has been around an incestuous sport laden with snake oil shoe salesmen, millionaire coaches and sleazy recruiters.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Their play-fighting suggests a slightly incestuous, flirty relationship, that baseline creepiness of a mom who is just a little too close to her son.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Wynalda remains a pariah in the eyes of the sport's ever-incestuous establishment.
    — Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The Menendez Brothers never suggests the boys were incestuous.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Oct. 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
  • 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

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