tortious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman torcious.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːʃəs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹʃəs/

Adjective

tortious (comparative more tortious, superlative most tortious)

1. (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 […]

2. (law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

Synonyms

• (wrongful): wrongful

Derived terms

• tortious interference
• tortiously
• tortiousness

Related terms

• tort