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How to use the word incestuous in a Sentence?

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The NBER's incestuous, fundamental issues that ought to be part of the conversation in our economic system are excluded as if they don't exist.

Richard Wolff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If it all seems too incestuous to be true, it was hardly unusual within the culture that followed Zucker wherever he went. For all his many journalistic wins, a brazen disregard for workplace ethics seemed to envelop his newsrooms — a function, perhaps, of his early successes and the privileges he enjoyed along the way.

Rolling Stone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These instances show a glimpse into the incestuous financial services industry where quid pro quo has become the norm. The rot ... is deep and needs more cleansing.

Shriram Subramanian

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke’s on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix The WHCD or end The WHCD.

Associated Press

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The reason why New Orleans has been so stagnant is that it's so incestuous, the incestuous politics, the incestuous business relationships, the incestuous clubs -- all of that has to be mitigated to a certain degree.

Calvin Mackie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William S. Burroughs

added by anonymous
10 years ago

... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

John Milton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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