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tortious - What does it mean?

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