Modifies a noun

• relationship: Anna was having an incestuous relationship with her son, Per, who received a life sentence for his part in the crime.

• marriage: This was an incestuous marriage, like that marriage in Corinth.

• affair: But in a sub-plot echoing the main story, the innocent Isabella is deceived into an incestuous affair with her uncle.

• love: Whilst in White Heat ( 1949 ), Cody Jarrett ( Jimmy Cagney ) had an incestuous love for his mother.

• nature: The derby has taken on an incestuous nature in recent times with Cardiff relying heavily on former Swans.

• world: But before they entered the incestuous world of trade unions and campaigning organizations, the four had something else in common.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The art world can be a very incestuous place to be.

• rather: With a shortage of models, photography students take turns to pose as each others' models in a rather incestuous exchange.

• almost: Frankly, that sort of life is almost incestuous, too close for comfort.

• somewhat: The somewhat incestuous pursuit of historiography was novel to most of us - and therefore salutary.

• so: The links between Manchester fandom and Edinburgh fandom are so incestuous as to be beyond simple rationalization.