Tortious

//ˈtɔɹʃəs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wrongful; harmful. obsolete

    "he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]"

  2. 2
    Misspelling of tortuous alt-of, misspelling

    "Burr continued to preside over the Senate with matchless grace and dignity, addressed it finally in the farewell speech which moved his enemies to tears, and wandered off into the tortious windings of political intrigue."

  3. 3
    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to the nature of a tort wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
wrongfulwrongful

Example

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"he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]"

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious.

Related phrases

tortious interference

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