Tortious

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtɔːʃəs/

Origin

From Anglo-Norman torcious.

Full definition of tortious

Adjective

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