Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being incestuous.
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- noun The state or property of being
incestuous .
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Examples
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It just shows the "incestuousness" of political marriages in the USA.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010
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It just shows the "incestuousness" of political marriages in the USA.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010
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It is a strange kind of incestuousness indeed that makes the participants BOTH look good, but god knows I’m not proud.
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The incestuousness of the gang must be concealed, because it is its primary weakness.
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The incestuousness of the gang must be concealed, because it is its primary weakness.
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"Two years ago in this very chamber, gay people everywhere were put in the same basket as bestiality, incestuousness, pedophilia, and deviation," he said.
The Same-Sex Marriage Debate; Titone Invokes His Mother, Hikind Invokes God 2009
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Bu then thats the difference between CalArts and other schools and therein lies the incestuousness.
Nothing Personal Steve Hulett 2008
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They've become talk-show proxies for the trials of the two-career life, the incestuousness of Washington elites, the vacuousness of campaigns and the cynicism of the handlers who run them.
Spin Doctors In Love 2008
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Walton is also particularly good at slowly evoking the almost claustrophobic incestuousness of such politics, and her real brilliant tour de force is combining that sensation with the subgenre in which claustrophobia and incestuousness are positive virtues, namely the English country-house mystery.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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The family economy becomes more explicit in the 1831 text when, in an apparent effort to deflect the incestuousness of Victor and Elizabeth's relationship in the 1818 version, Shelley has Caroline explain the appearance of the now exogamous Elizabeth to young Victor as a gift from mother to son.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003
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