incestuous

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Film and TV felt too incestuous — his grandfather, Lew Wasserman, reigned as Hollywood’s power broker from the 1960s to the 1990s — and too financially challenged, he would say.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2023

Previous studies of ancient DNA obtained from Tut and several other members of the royal family revealed clues to his incestuous lineage.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022

Aemma's birth scene is by far the most uncomfortable scene of the show out of what I've seen, but this is a medieval milieu family saga centered on an incestuous dynasty.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

“You’ve got to have somebody to monitor the monitors,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, who calls the federal overseers “an incestuous little group.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2021

Because Wayna Qhapaq had not actually married Washkar’s mother—the union was properly incestuous but not properly legitimate—the new Inka demanded that his mother participate ex post facto in a wedding ceremony with his father’s mummy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann