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incestous

incestous is the misspelling of incestuous.

Meaning of incestuous

Adjective

incestuous (comparative more incestuous, superlative most incestuous)

  1. Pertaining to or engaging in incest.
    • If you engaged in an incestuous relationship with a family member, that would make you an inbreeder.
  2. Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders.
    • It’s an incestuous thing. Faculty at the liberal, Ivy League schools are involved in hiring other faculty, who later hire the next generation of faculty. There’s very little intellectual or philosophical diversity in our newsrooms as a result. Furthermore, as I pointed out in the book, there’s a...2019 July 3, Omri Nahmias, Mark Levin, “Mark Levin, Unplugged”, in Mishpacha

Questions about incestous

What is incestous the misspelling of?
Incestous is the misspelling of incestuous.

Words near incestous in the dictionary

  1. incestophilia
  2. incestophobe
  3. incestophobes
  4. incestophobia
  5. incestophobic
  6. incestous
  7. incestously
  8. incestral
  9. incestries
  10. incestry
  11. incests

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