Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Incestuous: Describes a sexually immoral and promiscuous relationship, especially one involving family members or close relatives, violating social and moral norms.
   • Lewd and Promiscuous / Debauched: More broadly, describes behavior that is sexually unrestrained, wanton, and morally corrupt.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Hắn bị buộc tội dâm loạn với chị gái của mình. (He was charged with incest with his sister.)
  • Triều đại đó sụp đổ vì lối sống dâm loạn của giới quý tộc. (That dynasty collapsed due to the debauched lifestyle of the nobility.)
  • Những bộ phim đó bị cấm vì nội dung dâm loạn. (Those films were banned for their lewd and promiscuous content.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is almost exclusively used in formal, legal, or literary contexts to describe severe sexual misconduct. It carries an extremely strong negative connotation of moral condemnation and is not used in casual conversation.
• It often appears in historical or judicial texts describing crimes, scandals, or moral decay.

Variants and Related Words

• Dâm (adj/root): Lewd, lustful, obscene. This is the root conveying the sense of excessive sexual desire.
• Loạn (adj/root): Disorderly, chaotic, rebellious. This root conveys the sense of violating natural or social order.
• Loạn luân (n): Incest. A more direct noun for the specific act.
• Dâm đãng (adj): Lustful, lecherous. Describes a person prone to lewdness.
• Trụy lạc (adj): Decadent, depraved. Describes a morally corrupt lifestyle.

Synonyms

• Incestuous (adj): Involving incest.
• Debauched (adj): Indulging in sensual pleasures to a morally corrupt degree.
• Wanton (adj): Sexually unrestrained, promiscuous.
• Licentious (adj): Lacking legal or moral restraints, especially in sexual conduct.

Related Phrases / Idioms

• Tội dâm loạn (n): The crime of incest/debauchery.
  • Kẻ phạm tội dâm loạn sẽ bị trừng phạt nghiêm khắc. (Those who commit the crime of incest will be severely punished.)
• Sống dâm loạn (v): To live a debauched/lewd life.
  • Kẻ cầm quyền sống dâm loạn đã đánh mất lòng dân. (The ruler who lived a debauched life lost the people's support.)

adj

1. incestuous
   • tội dâm loạn
     incest