tortious

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈtɔːʃəs/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtɔɹʃəs/

Adjective

tortious

1. (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 […]

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

Synonyms

• (wrongful) wrongful

Related terms

• tort

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