tortious
adjUK /ˈtɔːʃəs/ · US /ˈtɔɹʃəs/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious.
1
Obsolete Wrongful; harmful.
- he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Law Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
- Synonyms
- wrongful
- Derived terms
- nontortious, tortious interference, tortiously, tortiousness
- Related terms
- tort