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Definition of 'tortious'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
(obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
- he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […].
(legal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
Synonyms
* wrongful
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