tortious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Anglo-Norman torcious.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tortious (comparative more tortious, superlative most tortious)
- (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
- (law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
Synonyms
[edit]- (wrongful): wrongful
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